Top 50 Blockchain Startup Investors in Asia in January 2025
A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Blockchain startups based in Asia. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Blockchain companies from Asia. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Blockchain Startup Investors in Asia in January 2025
Investor | Blockchain Asia investments |
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Kenetic | 25 |
Hashed | 21 |
Animoca Brands | 20 |
Fenbushi Capital | 19 |
OKX Ventures | 17 |
OKX Ventures | 16 |
LD Capital | 15 |
OKX Ventures | 15 |
Node Capital | 15 |
Morningstar Ventures | 14 |
Mask Network | 13 |
The Spartan Group | 13 |
HashKey Capital | 13 |
Mechanism Capital | 13 |
Infinity Ventures Crypto | 13 |
SevenX Ventures | 13 |
FBG Capital | 13 |
AU21 Capital | 12 |
SNZ Holding | 12 |
SOSV | 12 |
Hash Global | 12 |
AlphaCoin Fund | 11 |
Shima Capital | 11 |
ZBS CAPITAL | 11 |
Sandeep Nailwal | 11 |
Arrington XRP Capital | 11 |
DHVC | 11 |
8 Decimal Capital | 11 |
Genblock Capital | 10 |
LuneX Ventures | 10 |
Youbi Capital | 10 |
Alameda Research | 10 |
Coinbase Ventures | 10 |
ArkStream Capital | 10 |
Sky9 Capital | 9 |
Signum Capital | 9 |
Draper Dragon | 9 |
Multicoin Capital | 9 |
Ascensive Assets | 9 |
Frees Fund | 9 |
Arrington XRP Capital | 9 |
Hashkey Exchange | 9 |
Waterdrip Capital | 9 |
Token Bay Capital | 8 |
Pantera Capital | 8 |
Folius Ventures | 8 |
Spark Digital Capital | 8 |
DWF Labs | 8 |
Kosmos Ventures | 8 |
Balaji Srinivasan | 8 |
Kenetic is a proprietary trading and VC investment firm focused on digital assets and blockchain related companies. They have developed technology to facilitate their quantitative trading strategies and offer various digital asset related structured products to counterparts.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Singapore, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- DuckChain — DuckChain engages in bridging telegram users into the blockchain space.
- Eywa — Founded in 2021, EYWA helps Web3 projects scale up by enabling them to operate, get listed, and traded on all connected blockchain networks with a single liquidity pool. Additionally, EYWA provides a truly decentralized data protocol for secure messaging.In partnership with Curve Finance, one of the largest decentralized exchanges, EYWA isintroducing a new paradigm of non-algorithmic cross-chain assets aimed at solving the problem of liquidity fragmentation. Their cross-chain protocol stands out as the most decentralized solution in the market.- Received 6 grants from biggest L1/L2 blockchain networks including NEAR Foundation, Aurora, Harmony One, Algorand, Boba Network, and others - Winning hackathons: Ethglobal Marketmake, Polygon’s BUIDL IT hackathon, Metis hackathon
- Avalon Finance — The liquidity hub for BTC LSDFi and CeDeFi Lending.Borrow stablecoins at Fixed rates starting as low as 8%.
Hashed is a global, early stage venture fund focused on backing founders who are pioneering the future of blockchain and cryptocurrency. Hashed is based in Seoul and San Francisco.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, South Korea, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Dfns — Supercharge your platform with keyless custody as a service. One API to generate secure wallets, manage your crypto, sign transactions, set up business rules, monitor security, and more.
- DOD — DOD is data-driven musical business platform.
- Sekai — Sekai makes it easy to create, share, and monetize interactive narratives.
Animoca Brands is a metaverse and gaming venture capital firm that focuses on driving digital property rights to gamers and internet users through NFTs. It utilizes gamification and blockchain to develop and market a portfolio of mobile applications, games, and additional products oriented to educational learning to ensure transparency, security,and new business models.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- FLock.io — FLock.io aims to build a decentralised privacy-preserving solution for Artificial Intelligence.
- Bounty Bay — Bounty Bay is a social commerce company.
- Lava Network — Lava Network aims to be a marketplace for blockchain data.
Fenbushi Capital is the first and most active blockchain-focused venture capital firm in Asia. Founded in Shanghai in 2015 by veterans across both blockchain and traditional financial industries, it has to date supported over 80 leading projects across 4 continents leveraging blockchain technology to reshape myriad industries such as finance,healthcare, supply chain, and consumer goods. Fenbushi’s mission is to drive healthy and sustainable growth in the global blockchain ecosystem, and actively works as a long-term strategic partner to its portfolio projects.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Singapore, China
OKX Blockdream Ventures is a fund focused on exploring high-quality blockchain projects with great potential.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Singapore, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- 0G Labs — The First Decentralized AI Operating System
- Corn — Corn is a new Ethereum Layer 2 network that aims to be the best platform for utilizing Bitcoin.
- Mocaverse — Mocaverse is the Animoca Brands membership NFT collection of 8,888 unique beings: The Mocas. Join the Mocas in the realms to Learn, Play, Do Good, and Build together as we champion our Web3 values!
OKX Blockdream Ventures is a fund focused on exploring high quality projects. This fund will invest in blockchain basic infrastructure, layer 2, Polkadot ecosystem, Defi, Filecoin ecosystem etc.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Singapore, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- 0G Labs — The First Decentralized AI Operating System
- Corn — Corn is a new Ethereum Layer 2 network that aims to be the best platform for utilizing Bitcoin.
- Mocaverse — Mocaverse is the Animoca Brands membership NFT collection of 8,888 unique beings: The Mocas. Join the Mocas in the realms to Learn, Play, Do Good, and Build together as we champion our Web3 values!
LD Capital is one of Asia's earliest organizations focusing on value investing in blockchain field. Owing to industrial resource advantages and professional investment research teams, LD Capital has successively discovered and invested in projects such as Qtum, Vechain and Eos which all achieved over 100 times return.Their teams spread overChina, the United States, Europe, Singapore, Japan, and South Korea, and have accumulated rich experience in areas of traditional internet, Fintech, and advanced blockchain technology. They are committed to the globalization of blockchain and quality investment in the entire industry.LD Capital focuses on blockchain innovation projects within finance, games, content publishing, Internet of Things and other circuits, and we have been propelling broad layout of blockchain technology and infrastructure construction to facilitate the comprehensive development of the global blockchain ecosystem.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
- Seed, Funding Round, Initial Coin Offering
- United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Swan Chain — FilSwan provides a layer 2 cross-chain infrastructure for Web3 projects by integrating data, computing, and payment into one suite. FilSwan offers a complete solution that enables web3 developers to integrate decentralized storage, edge computing, and payment across multiple chains with ease.
- Yellow — Yellow is a financial services provider of software, analytics, and investments in blockchain startups.
- Helix Labs — Decentralized Finance Focused Universal ZK Rollup
OKX Ventures focus on the discoveries and investments in various aspects, including blockchain basic infrastructures, Layer2, DeFi, WEB3.0, NFT and Metaverse.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Singapore, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- 0G Labs — The First Decentralized AI Operating System
- Mocaverse — Mocaverse is the Animoca Brands membership NFT collection of 8,888 unique beings: The Mocas. Join the Mocas in the realms to Learn, Play, Do Good, and Build together as we champion our Web3 values!
- Usual — Usual Labs operates as a decentralized finance(DeFi) protocol.
Node Capital is a venture capital company focusing on blockchain industry. It is also one of the world’s earliest professional investment institutions of blockchain industry layouts.
Node Capital aims to connection every node of blockchain industry by project investment and cooperation, thus building industry ecosystem, and promote healthy andstable development of blockchain industry.
So far, Node Capital has invested many projects of blockchain industry, such as news information, digital asset transactions, storage, technology development and application. Including enterprises such as Huobi, Coldlar, Bocheninc, fengwo, Jinse Finance , Lianshang Technology, Yulian, Qukuai Leida.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Internet, Information Technology
- Initial Coin Offering, Seed, Funding Round
- China, Singapore, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Axelar Network — Axelar is the multichain platform that unifies Web3 for developers, delivering applications from any blockchain to every user, easily.
- C3 Exchange — C3 is a self-custodial cryptocurrency exchange that allows you to buy, margin trade, and earn using any wallet from any blockchain.
- BBS Network — BBS Network is a SocialFi project that allows sharing content to reward creators, curators, and other stakeholders with their own native testimony. The revenue generated by the platform is shared among all participants in the BBS ecosystem in a fully automated, transparent, and market-driven way.
We are a proprietary investment firm focused on digital assets and blockchain technology, primarily focused on the Elrond Ecosystem.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Singapore, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Nexio — Nexio is a bitcoin scaling solution platform that helps to improve cryptocurrency's scalability by using parallelizing Bitcoin rollouts.
- KIP Protocol — KIP Protocol is a decentralised AI framework unlocking digital property rights of Knowledge Assets in the AI-powered future.
- COTI AI Agents — COTI AI Agents is an AI Agent platform on the COTI network that focuses on privacy and ease of use. Users can launch, train, and trade AI agents with just one click. Co-own agents to earn revenue share while enjoying personalized tools, fun interactions, and rewards.COTI AI Agents is the first grantee of MomentumX Accelerator - The #1 acceleratorfor startups exploring Web3 privacy, backed by COTI network & Poolz.
Your Portal To The New, Open Internet.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Singapore, Japan
Portfolio highlights
- mbd — mbd is a Web3 social platform developer specializds in the research and development of machine learning recommendation systems as well as on-chain data pre-training, with the goal of providing dynamic, relevant material and activities to each user.
- Fraction AI — Fraction AI is the best human-generated data for training your AI models.
- Party Icons — Party Icons is a web3 mobile gaming platform. Its mission is to blend the social glue of party games with the intensity of extraction shooters.
We advise, invest and build with the best entrepreneurs in Web3.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Singapore, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Zkcandy — Zkcandy is an Ethereum-based game network.
- OpenLayer — OpenLayer increases web3 with positive verifiable computation.
- Fraction AI — Fraction AI is the best human-generated data for training your AI models.
HashKey Capital is an investment firm.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Kiva AI — Kiva AI is a platform designed to supply high-quality and compliant data solutions at scale to create specialized AI applications in domains such as healthcare, finance, and law.
- Brevis — Brevis is an efficient, verifiable off-chain computation engine that brings limitless computation capacity to existing smart contract blockchains.
- Lnfi Network — Lnfi Network is an all-in-one financialization layer for Taproot Assets, enabling builders to issue, fundraise, and bootstrap communities and users to mint, send/receive, and earn.
Mechanism Capital is an investment firm that invests in the cryptocurrency industry with a focus on decentralized finance or DeFi.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Singapore, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- DeFi.app — DeFi.app helps to make DeFi trading easier while keeping full ownership of crypto assets. It also helps to manage CEFI and DEFI more effectively.
- Nectar AI — Nectar AI is a virtual AI companion platform that offers users the ability to create and interact with the digital customized personalities and companions.
- Exponent Finance — Exponent Finance is a Solana Network DeFi fixed price market that creates time-locked tokens that can generate set returns or be traded for yield.
Who we are We are investors and entrepreneurs helping define the next generation of Blockchain startups. Our Focus Passionate founders. Disruptive models. Borderless markets. Exponential effects. Our Geography Starting from...
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Singapore, Philippines
Portfolio highlights
- GAIB — GAIB is the economic foundation for the future of artificial intelligence and computers. GAIB is a crypto-AI platform under development that tokenize GPUs, making AI computing—the processing power required to train and run AI models—more accessible.
- Magma — Magma is a decentralized liquid staking protocol built on the Monad Network, an Ethereum-compatible Layer 1 blockchain.
- Fluid Protocol — Fluid Protocol is a decentralized, over-collateralized lending mechanism designed especially for Fuel Network. In order to maximize capital efficiency, Fluid offers users a safe and effective method of releasing liquidity from their collateral without having to liquidate their underlying assets.
SevenX Ventures is a Research-driven Crypto Venture Capital founded in 2020.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Perena — Perena is a startup developing the basic infrastructure to address significant difficulties in the stablecoin sector.
- PumpBTC — PumpBTC is a liquid staking protocol that aims to help Bitcoin holders to stake their bitcoins and earn yield while bolstering the security.
- StakeStone — StakeStone is the best yield-bearing ETH with a decentralized yield optimizing service ready for mass adoption on layer2s.
FBG Capital is a digital asset management firm in blockchain-based capital market.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Singapore, China
Portfolio highlights
- Swan Chain — FilSwan provides a layer 2 cross-chain infrastructure for Web3 projects by integrating data, computing, and payment into one suite. FilSwan offers a complete solution that enables web3 developers to integrate decentralized storage, edge computing, and payment across multiple chains with ease.
- Inferix Labs — Inferix Labs is a decentralized GPU network that provides GPU visual computing solutions dedicated to 3D/AR/VR rendering and AI inference.
- Skyfire Systems — Skyfire, a financial stack designed to enable autonomous agentic AI commerce, is to establish the first fully autonomous, open agentic AI economy in history.
A fund dedicated to backing the most brilliant minds in the blockchain space
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Funding Round, Initial Coin Offering
- United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- A-World — A-world is a super metaverse card tower defense battle game based on BNB CHAIN.
- Nillion — The Secure Processing Layer of Web3
- Vue Protocol — Vue Protocol operates as a layer2 for Web3 Social.
SNZ Holding was founded by a group of engineers, blockchain evangelists.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Singapore, United States, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- Anichess — Anichess develops a decentralized chess game.
- EarlyFans — Welcome to EarlyFans! A new way to find your favorite creators, support them early, and get rewarded for it.
- CELL Studio — A blockchain software development company with a dedicated focus on the BTC ecosystem, committed to advancing the Nervos BTCKB initiative
SOSV is a global, deep tech venture capital firm that operates the HAX and IndieBio startup development programs focused on human and planetary health. SOSV invests $500,000 in startups at their inception as they onboard either HAX or IndieBio for a 4-6 month period designed to accelerate the raise of their next institutional round. SOSV joins thelater rounds of HAX and IndieBio graduates.
HAX, based in a 35,000 sq ft facility in Newark, NJ, is equipped with machine tools, 3D printers, chemical, electrical and mechanical engineering labs, as well as on-staff engineering and design experts. SOSV's IndieBio has locations in NYC and San Francisco, both of which offer extensive services and facilities to founders including on-site BSL-2 labs, well equipped lab benches and hoods, and advanced lab equipment, such as chromatography equipment.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
- Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
- United States, India, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- MixRift — MIXRIFT - game developers specialized in Mixed Reality
- unspun — From 3D scan to perfect fitting custom jeans. unspun makes each pair of jeans unique to your actual body and design. On a mission to reduce global carbon emissions by 1%. As seen in Fast Company's World Changing Ideas, Time's Best Inventions, and PopSci's Best of What's New. Welcome to the future of apparel.
- Mesa Quantum — Unlock the potential of chip-scale quantum sensing for enhanced Position, Navigation, And Timing capabilities. Explore Mesa Quantum's practical solutions.
Hash Global is a fund management company that specializes on blockchain and crypto asset investing.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Singapore, United States, Japan
Portfolio highlights
- DataDance — DataDance is a Layer 2 network based on Ethereum, focusing on protecting user privacy in the AI era while enabling smooth and secure transactions of user assets.
- Pharos — Pharos incorporates effective blockchain technology into real-world asset verticals and decentralized finance. Pharos Network is promoting trustless innovations that benefit asset markets and underprivileged communities, bolstering the global economy of the future and facilitating the widespread use of Web3 technologies.
- RD Technologies — RD Wallet is a licenced Stored Value Facility in Hong Kong. It is the first business-focused, multiple-currency mobile wallet. RD Wallet offers deposits, local and cross-border payments and foreign exchange services for businesses.
AlphaCoin Fund is a venture capital focused on investing blockchain technology and tokens. Since 2017, AlphaCoin has invested in over 80 leading blockchain technology projects both home and abroad, with a total investment amount in exceed of 90 million USD. Our investment team consists of professionals from backgrounds covering traditional andcrypto venture capital investing, blockchain technology and crypto exchange operations.
AlphaCoin Fund has founded strategic partnerships with both top-tier venture capital institutions such as Zhen Fund, Sequoia Capital, Danhua Capital, etc and service providers . With its connections in the blockchain industry, AlphaCoin Fund has been long dedicated to building an orbicular industry chain with its partners, so as to provide value-added services such as technology assistance, business development advising, marketing, partnership building and exchange listing consulting.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Internet
- Seed, Funding Round, Initial Coin Offering
- United States, Singapore, China
Portfolio highlights
- Cowboy Snake — Cowboy Snake is the TvT play-to-earn game inspired by snake on the blockchain. Cowboy Snake is a product of OrenCT Ltd.
- Formless — Formless enables gamers, NFT enthusiasts and digital collectors to find their favourite game while helping games find their targeted fans.
- Clear Protocol — Clear Protocol, Inc. is a healthcare IT company. Our product, Clear Protocol, is Software-as-a-service for hospitals, clinics, and medical offices.
Shima Capital is an investment fund that focuses on supporting blockchain startups. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Stashh — Collect, create, trade, share, discover, and decrypt digital collectibles on Stashh - the omnichain NFT hub.
- Ava Protocol — Ava Protocol is an event-driven EigenLayer AVS that seamlessly automates cross-chain transactions for DeFi, NFTs, games, and more.
- Goldilocks DAO — Goldilocks is a Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) dedicated to creating custom defi infrastructure for Berachain. The Goldilocks Protocol is comprised of three primary components: Goldiswap, Goldilend, Goldivaults.
ZBS Capital - distinguished crypto venture fund, backed by major media resources including CryptoDiffer.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Funding Round, Initial Coin Offering
- United States, Singapore, India
Portfolio highlights
- Yellow — Yellow is a financial services provider of software, analytics, and investments in blockchain startups.
- KIP Protocol — KIP Protocol is a decentralised AI framework unlocking digital property rights of Knowledge Assets in the AI-powered future.
- Alliance Games — Next level Web3 Gaming Infrastructure, Now Fully Decentralized
Sandeep Nailwal is the co-founder and COO of Polygon. Sandeep previously worked at Scopeweaver as the Co-Founder and CEO. He attended the Indian Institute of Management, Mumbai.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, India, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Fraction AI — Fraction AI is the best human-generated data for training your AI models.
- Lava Network — Lava Network aims to be a marketplace for blockchain data.
- Talus Network — Talus Network is an L1 blockchain purpose-built for Smart Agents. Built with the MoveVM, Talus allows for seamless development, ownership, and monetization of composable Smart Agents.
Arrington Capital is a thesis-driven firm investing in digital assets and Web3 since 2017
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Singapore, South Korea
Portfolio highlights
- ether.fi — Delegated Staking Protocol
- Azuro — Powerful tooling, oracle & liquidity solutions for any EVM predictions & gaming ecosystem
- QED Protocol — A trustless, scalable, decentralized compute protocol for a fairer internet focused on user privacy and platform transparency.
DHVC is a venture capital firm based in Palo Alto, California, that invests in Enterprise, Consumer, FinTech, and Healthcare companies.
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Investment focus
- Software, Blockchain, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, China, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- TensorOpera — TensorOpera, Inc. is an innovative AI company based in Silicon Valley, specifically Palo Alto, California. We specialize in developing scalable and secure AI platforms tailored for enterprises and developers. Its flagship products include: TensorOpera® AI Platform: Accessible at TensorOpera.ai, this platform serves as a comprehensive generative AIecosystem. It features robust tools for enterprise AI platforms, model deployment, model serving, AI agent APIs, and more. It supports launching training and inference jobs on a serverless/decentralized GPU cloud, experimental tracking for distributed training, and enhanced security and privacy measures. TensorOpera® FedML: Available at FedML.ai, this platform is a leader in federated learning and analytics, supporting zero-code implementation. It includes a lightweight, cross-platform Edge AI SDK suitable for edge GPUs, smartphones, and IoT devices. Additionally, it offers a user-friendly MLOps platform to streamline decentralized machine learning and deployment in real-world applications.
- Shentu Chain — The Shentu Chain's mission is to create a more trustworthy blockchain world for all, starting with the Shentu Chain, a public platform that's secure, decentralized and compatible & interoperable with other blockchain ecosystems. Where security is a need, not a nice-to-have.
- SURGE Therapeutics — SURGE Therapeutics seeks to dramatically improve cancer patient survival by disrupting cancer immunotherapy is deployed.
8 Decimal Capital is a multi-strategy investment firm focused on both token and equity investment. We currently have more than 30 portfolio companies, and an AUM of 60M USD. Our investment team consists of more than 10 venture capital veterans, researchers, and trading professionals. We thematically invest in core infrastructure layer projects thataddress security, scalability, and privacy, provide a full suite of post-investment value-add to our portfolio companies.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- United States, Singapore, China
Portfolio highlights
- Polkadot — Polkadot is a protocol that allows independent blockchains to exchange information. Polkadot is an inter-chain blockchain protocol which unlike internet messaging protocols (e.g. TCP/IP) also enforces the order and the validity of the messages between the chains. This interoperability also allows the additional benefit of scalability bycreating a general environment for multiple state machines.
- Parallel Finance — Parallel Finance is a decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol that offers lending and staking services.
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Genblock Capital invests exclusively in blockchain and cryptocurrency, with a focus on decentralized finance.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- United States, Singapore, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- OX.FUN — Trade Bitcoin, Ethereum and trending altcoin derivatives on the most FUN exchange around. Join OX.FUN today and earn up to 200% yield. Moo.
- AINN Layer2 — A Bitcoin Layer2 Solution Built On AI-Driven Modular Architecture
- Sanctum — Sanctum offers the ability to launch millions of new LSTs utilizing solana.
LuneX Ventures is a spin-out from Singapore based VC firm Golden Gate Ventures. LuneX has a global mandate to invest exclusively in high-growth blockchain companies and cryptocurrency assets. Founded by Golden Gate’s former Head of Growth, Kenrick Drijkoningen.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Singapore, United Kingdom, South Korea
Portfolio highlights
- MugglePay — MugglePay is a payment solution enabling global, instant, and low-cost settlements via cryptocurrency.
- Alpha Impact — Discover your trading potential with Alpha Impact. Generate alpha and make impactful decisions through tokenized trade signals.
- Merkle Science — They are a group of passionate individuals from Paypal, Luno, Bank of America, Instamojo who believe in the promise of decentralized and trustless commerce.
We invest in world-class solutions designed to create a sustainable and inclusive web3 infrastructure
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Singapore, South Korea
Portfolio highlights
- StakeStone — StakeStone is the best yield-bearing ETH with a decentralized yield optimizing service ready for mass adoption on layer2s.
- Doubler Pro — Join Doubler, become a Winner.
- Multiple Network — Multiple Network is a web3 DePIN project that uses SD-WAN technology to create a network layer that allows for high-speed transfer of digital assets and data.
Alameda Research is a quantitative cryptocurrency trading firm that provides liquidity in cryptocurrency and digital assets markets. It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Central and Western, Hong Kong.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Singapore, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- 3Commas — 3Commas develops a crypto-asset management tool for tracking investments and exchanges in a unified platform. It provides access to a unified dashboard as the central hub for trading and portfolio management execution.
- Fuel Labs — At Fuel, we are building the fastest execution layer for the modular blockchain stack.
- Optim Finance — Optim Finance provides investment tools that optimize yield on digital assets. Their financial primitives enable users to rent ADA delegation rights to power novel use cases such as SPO loans, leverage into ISOs, and initial bonds.
Coinbase Ventures is an investment arm of Coinbase that aims to invest in seed-stage cryptocurrency and blockchain startups. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in San Francisco, California, United States.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Singapore, India
Portfolio highlights
- Shinami — Tools to build the next wave of decentralized applications
- Pond — Pond is a decentralized AI startup that focuses on creating a comprehensive ecosystem for training Web3 AI models. Pond's approach is quite exciting because it merges two powerful, innovative technologies: AI and Web3.
- Variational — Go long or short with leverage on memecoins, DEX pairs, pre-launch tokens, points markets, and more.
Read writing from ArkStream Capital on Medium. Crypto-native web3 venture fund. Accelerate the decentralization on ARK. Every day, ArkStream Capital and thousands of other voices read, write, and share important stories on Medium.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Singapore, United States, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- ARPA — ARPA is a network that provides secure computation, which enables data to be shared and used without disclosing the raw data to anyone during data-at-use. The correctness of computation is verifiable even under majority malicious condition using Information-theoretic MAC and Zero- Knowledge Proof. By using state-of-the-art Multi-party Computationalong with innovative node communication scheme, our privacy-preserving computation protocol enables a new way of data monetization called Data Renting.
- ARPA Network — ARPA Network is a decentralized computing network designed to improve the fairness, security, and privacy of blockchain technology.
- Caldera — Caldera is a network of lightning fast, high-performance Ethereum rollups, unified by the Metalayer.
Sky9 Capital is a leading venture capital fund dedicated to supporting disruptive technologies and outstanding innovators to drive change and create positive impact for the society, environment and individual lives.
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Investment focus
- Software, Blockchain, Information Technology
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- China, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Mint BioTech — Mint BioTech is a biotechnology company that provides develops eco-friendly biomolecules and materials to improve sustainability.
- CrytocoinMiner — CrytocoinMiner presents a seamless and easy-to-use cloud mining solution that allows you to easily discover the world of cryptocurrency mining, whether you're interested in Bitcoin or Ethereum.
- Zhihe Computing — Zhihe Computing is an AI intelligent computing company that develops high-performance, scalable AI intelligent computing CPUs and RISC-V processors.
They are a Singapore-based firm that exclusively consults in Blockchain-enabled companies. Their mission is to realize the future of Blockchain economy by consulting in game changing projects and companies. They participate in Pre-sale stages of Token Generation Events and Equity investments.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- zkPass — Privacy-focused to connect the world
- CrytocoinMiner — CrytocoinMiner presents a seamless and easy-to-use cloud mining solution that allows you to easily discover the world of cryptocurrency mining, whether you're interested in Bitcoin or Ethereum.
- Pichi Finance — Pichi Finance Points are typically stored off-chain and linked to wallet addresses, limiting their tradability on the open market.
We invest in the We Love Entreprenuers About Us Founded by Larry Li, Andy Tang, Bobby Chao, and Tim Draper in 2006, Draper Dragon is a cross-border venture fund that connects Silicon Valley and Asia. We have offices in Silicon Valley, Toronto, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Bangalore. We look for early-stage companies that would...
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, China, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Mawari — Our mission is to unlock new perspectives with real-time immersive technology powered by a decentralized network of global resources
- Wincast — Wincast is the first live NFT bidding platform for live sports. Our platform allows users to bid on incredible sports moments while they're happening, and at the end of each quarter/round/play/down/at-bat, the highest bid is awarded an NFT collectible of that play. Users will then be able to buy, sell, and trade other keymoments with users on the platform through our secondary market and integrated wallet solutions.Own your favorite sports moments before they become THE moment.
- Ink Finance — Ink Finance is the scalability solution for web3 DAOs, protocols and asset managers, enabling them to customize asset management and governance frameworks through a no-code interface, to effectively establish on-chain credit and financial competence. Ink Finance allows a one-stop and frictionless solution for organized financial activities, with scalability and customizability.
Multicoin Capital is a thesis-driven investment firm that invests in cryptocurrencies, tokens, and blockchain companies reshaping trillion-dollar markets.
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Singapore, Switzerland
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- Drift — Drift brings on-chain, cross-margined perpetual futures to Solana. Making futures DEXs the best way to trade.
- Gradient Network — Gradient Network is a provider of decentralized computing services that aim to improve interoperability between blockchain networks. The company provides a system that allows for liquid staking and computing power sharing while also ensuring cross-chain compatibility and effective resource allocation, allowing developers and enterprises to improvetheir blockchain applications.
- Permissionless Labs — Permissionless Labs is redefining digital content distribution by pioneering the free and safe movement of content around the world.
Ascensive Assets is a seed-stage venture firm that invests in blockchain-enabled companies across the full spectrum of web3.
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Singapore, Brazil
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- StripChain — Stripchain is an intent-based interoperability standard that enables chain abstraction.
- Nest Wallet — A Wallet Built for Traders
- Switchboard — Switchboard allows builders to unlock the power of solana by creating high-performance data feeds from any API. They will bring data on-chain that will enable developers to unlock the future of decentralized applications. They enable the SOL community to push any form of data on-chain.
By adopting revolutionary mechanisms, FREES FUND is devoted to change the long-established rules in the venture capital. By leveraging the cutting-edge technologies and resources, FREES FUND aims at investing in great startups and helping them grow into great enterprises that are valuable to our society. We mainly invest in early-stagestartups, and hope to become their first-round institutional investor. Our primary interested areas are broad-sense TMT (Technology, Media, Telecom), B2B and deep technology.
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- Artificial Intelligence, Medical, Biotechnology
- Series A, Seed, Angel
- China, United States, Singapore
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- XellSmart — Xellsmart develops stem cell treatment solutions for a variety of degenerative diseases for which there are now no clinical treatments. Xellsmart is located in Minhang District, Shanghai, China.
- Dezao Technology — Dezao Technology is an e-commerce transaction provider, mostly involved in the sales of electronic products, mobile phones, and mobile phone accessories.
- Molar Intelligence — Molar Intelligence is a professional artificial intelligence data service provider.
Arrington Capital is a thesis-driven firm investing in digital assets and Web3 since 2017
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Singapore, South Korea
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- ether.fi — Delegated Staking Protocol
- Azuro — Powerful tooling, oracle & liquidity solutions for any EVM predictions & gaming ecosystem
- QED Protocol — A trustless, scalable, decentralized compute protocol for a fairer internet focused on user privacy and platform transparency.
Hashkey they offers investment opportunities and solutions to institutions, family offices, funds, and professional accredited investors across the digital asset and blockchain ecosystem.
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Singapore, Switzerland
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- AltLayer — AltLayer is a system of highly scalable application-dedicated execution layers that derive security from an underlying L1/L2.
- Supra — Supra is the world's highest-performing, fully vertically integrated L1 blockchain, and it's about to change everything.
- Panoptic — Panoptic is a perpetual, oracle-free, instant-settlement options trading protocol on the Ethereum blockchain. Panoptic enables the permissionless trading of options on top of any asset pool in the Uniswap v3 ecosystem and seeks to develop a trustless, permissionless, and composable options product, i.e., do for decentralized options markets whatx*y=k automated market maker protocols did for spot trading.Read the whitepaper behind our product here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.14232
Waterdrip capital invests in blockchain industries.
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Singapore, United States, Canada
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- Inferix Labs — Inferix Labs is a decentralized GPU network that provides GPU visual computing solutions dedicated to 3D/AR/VR rendering and AI inference.
- Lnfi Network — Lnfi Network is an all-in-one financialization layer for Taproot Assets, enabling builders to issue, fundraise, and bootstrap communities and users to mint, send/receive, and earn.
- Prosper — Prosper connects Bitcoin mining to the blockchain, which is run by a community-based organization. Bitcoin hashrate and Bitcoin are fully exposed by the sole decentralized protocol. Prosper's token foundation directly controls the underlying hashrate that supports the token supply and collaborates with top industry players to acquire andoversee that hashrate for the benefit of holders.
Since 2021, Token Bay has invested in digital assets and blockchain companies, providing investors with diversified exposure across the Web3 ecosystem.
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Singapore, Hong Kong, Israel
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- MANTRA DAO — Launched in 2020, MANTRA (previously known as MANTRA DAO) is a first of its kind, vertically-integrated and regulatory compliant blockchain ecosystem.
- Taiko Labs — Taiko is a fully permissionless, Ethereum-equivalent based rollup. Inspired, secured, and sequenced by Ethereum.
- MANTRA — MANTRA bridges the gap between TradFi and DeFi by offering the necessary infrastructure for tokenizing Real World Assets (RWAs) while adhering to real-world regulatory requirements.
Pantera Capital is an investment firm focused exclusively on Bitcoin, other digital currencies, and companies in the space. The company believes that Bitcoin has the potential to transform the way people use money and that it will do for payments what the Internet has done for communications and commerce.Until 2014, Pantera focused on globalmacro hedge fund investments. The firm was founded in 2003 by Dan Morehead, who was a chief financial officer and head of Macro Trading at Tiger Management. The firm has since shifted its investment advisory services to focus exclusively on Bitcoin, other digital currencies, and companies in the space.Shareholders include Benchmark, Fortress Investment Group, and Ribbit Capital.
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
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- Azra Games — Azra Games is a collection
- Monkey Tilt — Join your new crypto casino at Monkey Tilt. Play with crypto, earn points & win prizes. Tilt Club VIP program includes bonuses, merch drops & more.
- Gradient Network — Gradient Network is a provider of decentralized computing services that aim to improve interoperability between blockchain networks. The company provides a system that allows for liquid staking and computing power sharing while also ensuring cross-chain compatibility and effective resource allocation, allowing developers and enterprises to improvetheir blockchain applications.
Folius Ventures: Invest in, evangelize, and #buidl Web3 initiatives.
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Singapore, India
Established in 2017, Spark Digital Capital is an NY based family office that invests in Blockchain-enabled companies. They firmly believe in a future where blockchain not only plays a significant role in the world but also creates unlimited efficiencies and opportunities to the society and people’s lives. With their teams' strong finance andtechnology background they aim to bring blockchain into prosperity.
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Singapore, United States, Australia
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- AutoLayer — All LRTfi. One Interface.
- SecondLive — SecondLive is a diversified metaverse focused on building social networks and supporting creator economic activities.
- Bool Network — Bool Network is a permissionless, decentralized, and secure Bitcoin verification layer that intends to securely decentralize the Bitcoin network's expansion while maintaining Bitcoin's consensus, ultimately increasing wealth within the Bitcoin ecosystem.
We help build strong Web3 companies
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Singapore, United States, United Kingdom
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- DuckChain — DuckChain engages in bridging telegram users into the blockchain space.
- Kernel — Kernel is leading the way in restaking on the BNB Chain, which is intended to speed up innovation and ecosystem expansion while offering decentralized shared security.
- Yei Finance — Yei Finance a pioneering decentralized, non-custodial money market protocol.
Enabling multi-chain future with core infrastructure and innovative dapps
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Singapore, China
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- Holyheld — Holyheld is a onchain crypto debit card. The one card for all crypto natives. Get your card, pay from your phone, use your wallet, and pick your crypto.
- Fraction AI — Fraction AI is the best human-generated data for training your AI models.
- Nyan Heroes — Nyan Heroes is an immersive NFT based shooter of futuristic revolutions, cats in robots, evil corporations.
Balaji S. Srinivasan is the Co-Founder and Board Member of Coin Center. He was the CTO of Coinbase and cofounder of Counsyl, Earn, Teleport, and Coin Center. He was previously CEO at Earn.com, which was recently sold to Coinbase. Prior to taking the CEO role at Earn.com, Dr. Srinivasan was a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. Prior to joininga16z, he was the co-founder and CTO of Founders Fund-backed Counsyl, where he won the Wall Street Journal Innovation Award for Medicine and was named to the MIT TR35. Dr. Srinivasan holds a BS, MS, and PhD in Electrical Engineering and an MS in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University. He also teaches the occasional class at Stanford, including an online MOOC in 2013 which reached 250,000+ students worldwide.
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, India, Singapore
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- The Arena — Arena. social is a cutting-edge SocialFi platform that is revolutionizing how content producers interact, network, and make money from their work.
- Lica World — Hire Lica, AI Video Producer for Product, Sales, And Customer Success Teams
- OpenGradient — OpenGradient is a leading decentralized AI platform for open-source model hosting, secure inference, agentic reasoning, and application deployment. By developing tooling and a feature-rich platform that makes developing AI workflows both secure and seamless, OpenGradient empowers developers with the ability to build in its ecosystem of intelligentand optimized AI-empowered applications. With native model hosting, permissionless composability, and secure inference execution, OpenGradient also aims to accelerate open-source AI by democratizing model ownership, improving verifiability guarantees, and promoting censorship-resistant model access.Our heterogeneous AI compute architecture (HACA) and our proprietary library NeuroML scale secure AI workflows with features like inference, agentic reasoning, statistical analysis, and more. OpenGradient also accelerates open-source innovation with a web portal and SDK for Web2 developers to leverage our AI stack without navigating blockchain complexities, while enjoying the security and composability benefits of decentralized infrastructure.
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