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Top 50 Cryptocurrency Startup Investors in Australia in February 2025

Last updated: Feb 2025 A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Cryptocurrency startups based in Australia. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Cryptocurrency companies from Australia. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Cryptocurrency Startup Investors in Australia in February 2025

Investor	Cryptocurrency Australia investments
Framework Ventures	5
Stani Kulechov	3
The LAO	2
Ashwin Ramachandran	2
Radek Ostrowski	2
Algorand Foundation	2
Brisbane Angels	2
Circle Ventures	2
Solana Ventures	2
Evan Cheng	2
Multicoin Capital	2
Sandeep Nailwal	2
Maven 11 Capital	2
SkyVision Capital	2
Joyce Yang	2
BitScale	2
Simurg Labs	1
O-DE Capital Partners	1
TokenInsight	1
KuCoin	1
Philippe Perzi	1
Acreditus Partners	1
Darren Smorgon	1
Tribeca Investment Partners	1
Matt Rockman	1
Fulgur Ventures	1
Moonwhale Ventures	1
Mariano Conti	1
Hailstone Ventures	1
Three Arrows Capital	1
Algorand	1
Skalata	1
0xMaki &rlm;&rlm;&lrm; &lrm;&rlm;&rlm;&lrm; &lrm; &lrm;&rlm;&rlm;&lrm; &lrm;	1
Circle	1
Double Peak Group	1
Victor Tran	1
Vitalik Buterin	1
Chris Hitchen	1
Block Dream Fund	1
DeFiance Capital	1
Maeve Ventures	1
KeyChain Capital	1
Polychain	1
Valhalla Capital	1
Supernova	1
Coinbase Ventures	1
RNR Capital	1
Simon Cant	1
Mechanism Capital	1
Apollo Crypto	1

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A crypto venture firm that builds with our founders.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Australia, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

GOAT Gaming — GOAT Gaming is the developer of a gaming platform that allows gamers to enjoy a variety of games as well as compete for rewards.
Reservoir — Infrastructure and APIs to bring efficient token markets to every chain, wallet, and app
Mighty Bear Games — Mighty Bear is a Singapore-based studio building the next generation of massively multiplayer online mobile games. The team is a collective of games industry vetarans from the likes of King, Ubisoft, EA, Lucasarts, Disney, Gameloft, and Jagex. Mighty Bear make games that combine the depth of desktop gaming with the accessibility of mobile -"Mobile games without compromise".

Stani Kulechov is the founder and CEO of Aave and ETHLend. He is a seasoned entrepreneur with extensive experience developing technology in the crypto, blockchain, and fintech space. Stani is also a mentor to many founders and advisors of ICOs and blockchain projects and has spoken at numerous FinTech, Blockchain and cryptocurrency events,particularly on topics related to Ethereum Smart Contracts.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Financial Services, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Australia, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

karpatkey — Market leaders in onchain asset management, karpatkey helps crypto organisations grow their assets responsibly and sustainably. We provide active treasury management, financial services, ecosystem growth and risk management solutions.
RISE Labs — The Based Gigagas EVM Layer 2
Fantom Foundation — Fantom is a next-gen Layer-1 platform for DeFi, dApps and businesses.

The LAO is a global group of Ethereum enthusiasts and experts supporting the work of Ethereum builders.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Singapore, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Hook — Hook provides an NFT-native options protocol that enables active traders to earn more with less. For active traders, options allow them to earn multiples of buying the floor for the best trades.
Solv Protocol — Decentralized Liquidity Infrastructure
Reservoir — Infrastructure and APIs to bring efficient token markets to every chain, wallet, and app

Ashwin Ramachandran is a General Partner at Dragonfly Capital. He was a Research Engineer at ThunderCore. He attended Duke University.

Investment focus

Blockchain, FinTech, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Initial Coin Offering
United States, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

ZKX — ZKX is a permissionless protocol for derivatives built on StarkNet.
Veera — Veera is an internet browser that gives you rewards every time you browse.
INIT Capital — Lend, Borrow, and Access Yield Strategies with Liquidity Hook

A talented developer and an architect able to hit the ground running. With his broad skill set, he has contributed to the success of many small local and big international projects. Effective in taking applications from inception to completion and in improving the existing solutions. Motivated by challenges and driven by ambition agileproblem-solver.

Investment focus

FinTech, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Funding Round
Australia, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

prePO — Onchain exposure to the top pre-IPO companies.
Tracer DAO — Trace Digital and Real World Markets. Build and trade with Tracer Perpetuals and gain leveraged exposure to any market in the world.
Mycelium — Read up on information about Mycelium DAO.

Fulfilling the global promise of blockchain technology by leveraging the Algorand protocol and open source software for an inclusive ecosystem.

Investment focus

Blockchain, FinTech, Cryptocurrency
Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed
United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Parcision — Parcision revolutionizes the hiring process on Wall Street by introducing a crucial element: quantifiable skill. The current Wall Street hiring practice puts too much emphasis on alma mater and network connection, which deters many candidates. We aim to establish a quantitative approach that enables individuals from all backgrounds to assess theirskills and demonstrate their accuracy in analyzing critical market events, such as company earnings and economic announcements. We firmly believe that regardless of identity, sex, race, location, or educational background, everyone deserves an equal opportunity to pursue a rewarding career in the financial industry. Through our blind hiring and skills-first approach, we hope to change the DNA of Wall Street.To achieve this, we harness the power of Web 3 technology, specifically smart contracts, to facilitate and oversee tamper-proof tests that quantify candidates' analytical capabilities. By leveraging this advanced technology, we ensure a transparent, auditable, and provable performance metric for participants. The most accomplished participants are duly acknowledged financially and reputationally based on their exceptional proficiency. This recognition is facilitated through participants' undeniable track records on Parcision.Parcision is chess for financial analysts.
PlanetWatch — We leverage advanced technologies of the population to improve environmental monitoring worldwide and help protect public health
Kilde — Hands-off regular income with up to 11.5% returns per year. Invest in consumer and SME loans with the leading lending firms.

Formed in late 2006, the Brisbane Angels Pty Ltd is a large group of private investors who actively invest in early stage technology companies, usually in South East Queensland, Australia. The members are typically active or semi-retired former senior business executives, who apart from financial input can provide much needed value adding toinvestee companies through hands-on management experience and high level business networks.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
Australia, United States, New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

ReciMe — ReciMe is the ultimate cooking app that helps you save, share, and discover new recipes. It was founded in 2020 and is located in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
PropCode — PropCode is a online platform, that helps in researching for town planning queries. the rules can be complex, and make it easy to get the right answers.
Convergence Medical Robotics — Convergence Medical Robotics is a Brisbane-based pre-clinical medical robotics company making arthroscopy better through the invention of the V01 Robot. It solves the complexity of arthroscopy by creating the world's first arthroscopic robot.

Circle Ventures invests in projects that accelerate global crypto innovation and adoption in service. They foster crypto innovation by assisting founders and teams that are committed to open access, financial inclusivity, and programmable commerce, all of which may contribute to global economic success.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Germany, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Playtron — The Operating System for Gaming
Anzen — USDz is a stablecoin backed by a diversified RWA portfolio, allowing holders to mitigate volatility and earn rewards through all market cycles
Centrifuge — Centrifuge is the platform for tokenized real-world assets, providing the infrastructure and ecosystem to tokenize, manage, and invest into RWAs.

Solana Ventures' mission is to accelerate the growth of the Solana blockchain and adjacent ecosystems by providing capital to the most promising teams building in the crypto ecosystem.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Singapore, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Starpower — Starpower: On-boarding now, Share 30,000,000 STARs
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.
Permissionless Labs — Permissionless Labs is redefining digital content distribution by pioneering the free and safe movement of content around the world.

Evan Cheng Co-founder & CEO at Mysten Labs. He attended Syracuse University.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Australia

Portfolio highlights

PARSIQ — Explore the future of blockchain with PARSIQ - Your gateway to advanced blockchain monitoring, smart triggers, and real-time intelligence. Empower your crypto journey with cutting-edge technology and unparalleled insights. Join us in revolutionizing the way you interact with the blockchain ecosystem
PIN AI — PIN AI democratizes personal on-device intelligence for everyone; transform your digital footprints into your Personal Executive Assistant.
Verida — The Verida Wallet is a mobile application that allows you to manage your decentralized identity and personal data. It provides a user-friendly interface for interacting with applications built on the Verida network.

Multicoin Capital is a thesis-driven investment firm that invests in cryptocurrencies, tokens, and blockchain companies reshaping trillion-dollar markets.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Singapore, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

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.

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.

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.

Maven 11 is a global blockchain and digital asset investment firm. The teams we partner with are on a rigorous quest to solve most exciting problems and make the necessary shift towards decentralised tomorrow.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

GTE — GTE is a decentralized trading platform that offers end-to-end trading services.
Accrue — Send money across Africa in less time than it takes you to count your loose change. This is as easy, cheap, and fast as cross-border payments get
Accountable — Verifiable Yield Opportunities

SkyVision Capital (SVC) promotes new, open decentralized technology and its development. We are a Crypto Fund that is dedicated to incubating and investing in founders of tomorrow, today.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Funding Round, Initial Coin Offering
United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Demether — Demether is a DeFi protocol that works to enable zero-cost access to TVL for blockchains.
Amnis Finance — Stake APT on the best liquid staking protocol on Aptos to receive daily rewards with an attractive APR of 9%.
Nexus Interactive — Nexus Interactive gives collective growth and accrued value to its ecosystem.

Joyce Yang - Founder @ Global Coin Research

Investment focus

Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Florida Street — PIXEL GG INC.
Socket — Socket is a Web3 privacy infrastructure for social interactions for crypto-related purposes.
CrowdPad — CrowdPad is the world's first mobile social token app built on Solana to enable creators to build tokenized communities

BitScale invest in teams and solutions that bring transparency and efficiency to our world with cutting-edge technologies.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Singapore, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Cicada — Cicada | Institutional Credit Risk Management On Chain
Fluidity Money — Earn yield for trading, holding, swapping, minting NFTs; everything you already do is now yield bearing. Fluid assets change the way you use your money on-chain.
Thrive Protocol — Thrive Protocol's vision is to maximize value creation for all people and communities.

Simurg Labs is a pioneering force in the blockchain industry, founded by a team with extensive experience.

Investment focus

Software, Blockchain, Data Storage
Seed
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Verida — The Verida Wallet is a mobile application that allows you to manage your decentralized identity and personal data. It provides a user-friendly interface for interacting with applications built on the Verida network.

O-DE Capital Partner is an integrated business development ecosystem, comprising a venture capital arm, venture studio, consulting, and marketing services. We enhance business growth by offering resources and global network access.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Australia, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Wisdomise — Explore Wisdomise, your all-in-one, AI-powered platform delivering carefully curated insights and automated investment opportunities.
Verida — The Verida Wallet is a mobile application that allows you to manage your decentralized identity and personal data. It provides a user-friendly interface for interacting with applications built on the Verida network.
Mandala Chain — Mandala Chain provides blockchain and cryptocurrency solutions for government and enterprise integration.

Our independent Crypto research firm has delivered unbiased data, analytics, and ratings since 2018 to help you navigate market uncertainties.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Finance
Funding Round, Series A, Seed
Taiwan, Singapore, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Caduceus Foundation — Caduceus a foundation building a blockchain protocol for the metaverse. Caduceus has developed a meta-array full-merge transaction engine that draws on the matric processing methods of GPUs and AI NPUs.
WOO Network — Discover WOO's ecosystem of centralized and decentralized apps to seize every opportunity in crypto.
Compendium Finance — A compendium of trading tools offering free spot and futures trading bots, grid bots, portfolio tracking, automated social trading groups, copy trading, and more. Connect to popular exchanges like Binance, OKX, ByBit, BitGet, BitMEX, and more.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Kryptview — Kryptview provides a Research Wizard that allows a contributor to share research about different aspects of digital assets, including team and advisors, token, community traction, and competition. The platform uses a proprietary analytical framework to collect structured information.
Elixir — Elixir is a decentralized protocol that enables full composability for integrations by providing computationally secure, algorithmic market-making across CEXs and DEXs.
Obscuro Labs — Obscuro is a layer 2 solution for Ethereum that brings privacy. It ensures the inputs, ledger state and execution are always encrypted. No changes to Dapps, just migrate and gain privacy.

Philippe Perzi,Managing Director at Goldman Sachs, Head of FIG Australia and New Zealand.

Investment focus

Trading Platform, Financial Services
Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Tracer DAO — Trace Digital and Real World Markets. Build and trade with Tracer Perpetuals and gain leveraged exposure to any market in the world.
Thales — Thales is a synthetix ecosystem project building support for trading binary options.
Mycelium — Read up on information about Mycelium DAO.

Acreditus Partners is an angel innovation investor that is investing in New Technologies & Islamic Economy.

Investment focus

Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Angel
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Marhaba Defi — MRHB Defi is a halal, decentralized finance platform built to embody the true spirit of an “Ethical and Inclusive Defi” by following faith-based financial and business principles, where all excluded communities can benefit from the full empowerment potential of Defi.

Darren Smorgon

Investment focus

FinTech, Ethereum, Internet
Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

prePO — Democratizing Pre-IPO Investing
Tracer DAO — Trace Digital and Real World Markets. Build and trade with Tracer Perpetuals and gain leveraged exposure to any market in the world.
Mycelium — Read up on information about Mycelium DAO.

Tribeca is a leading boutique fund manager with a twenty year history of innovation and investment excellence. With offices in Sydney and Singapore, Tribeca manages a suite of actively managed traditional and alternative strategies.

Investment focus

Farming, Agriculture, Social Impact
Seed, Funding Round
Australia

Portfolio highlights

BetaCarbon — BetaCarbon is the first and only digital token notionally linked to Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCU.) ACCUs are a regulated financial asset issued by the Clean Energy Regulator, an Australian government-linked entity.
Stacked Farm — At Stacked Farm our end-to-end solutions and pioneering mindset are redefining agriculture. We offer cost-effective, nutritious, and pristine fresh produce, from seed to pack, with no human intervention.

Matt is an investor in venture businesses and will soon be basing himself in the United States working with Square Peg Capital. He invests across a wide sector of industries and geographies. Matt and his wife have a foundation where they focus on community projects, which have the ability to enhance the social sector.Prior to working as aninvestor in his own right, Matt was one of the three original founders of SEEK LTD. Along With Paul and Andrew Bassat, Matt took SEEK from business plan to become one of Australia’s most successful online businesses. SEEK is now an ASX Top 100 Listed company with a market capitalisation of $4 Billion, and with businesses in the UK, China, Brazil, Australia, New Zealand and Malaysia.Matt also is an accomplished speaker and helps many organisations realise their full potential through his business insights. Matt holds a Bachelor of Business (Banking and Finance) from Monash University.

Investment focus

Mobile, Apps, B2B
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
Australia, New Zealand, United States

Portfolio highlights

Vend — Vend is web-based point-of-sale and retail management software. Vend allows real-world retail store owners or managers to have full visibility and centralized control of one to many retail stores.Vend runs in the browser and supports full online and offline modes. Even though Vend is web-based it works offline, so users can keep making salesif the internet drops out.Vend integrates seamlessly with other web applications used to run retail stores, like accounting, eCommerce, appointment scheduling, and others.The Vend platform is subscription-based, never requires backups or upgrades and lets retailers get on with running their retail enterprise instead of worrying about their IT infrastructure.
Magnet Capital — Launched in 2017, Magnet Capital is an Australian investment fund focused solely on crypto and digital assets
Ordermentum Pty Ltd — Ordermentum is a wholesale online order management system for the food and beverage industry. Book a free demo to learn how mobile ordering and payments can help you.

We believe in Bitcoin as a next generation politically neutral monetary system, the foundation for decentralized finance of the future. While Bitcoin is an efficient settlement layer, it needs a Layer-2 solution for everyday transactions. That is why we support development of the Lightning Network - an essential step towards decentralized finance.As technology entrepreneurs we combine decades of experience creating business from zero and scaling it in emerging and fast-growing industries.We support outstanding teams in several ways: writing checks of $50-$200k for pre-seed startups; granting rewards for acknowledged contributions to the ecosystem; providing startup advisory and mentoring; investing in later stages.Along the way we help startups to navigate cryptocurrency legal and regulatory environment according to the evolving industry standards and best practices.

Investment focus

Bitcoin, FinTech, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Breez — Lightning Fast Bitcoin Payments
Relai — Relai is a Bitcoin investment app that allows anyone to buy bitcoin within one minutes or set up an automated savings plan.
AMBOSS — Lightning Network Explorer and Analytics Tools. Search for nodes and channels on the Lightning Network and get detailed information on them.

Moonwhale is an STO Financial Advisory offering companies strategic advice on STO process & structure, as well as token issuance incl. lifecycle management and secondary market on-boarding for their projects. Moonwhale is also building an End-to-End Security Token Offering (STO) Investment Platform will cater to investors looking to invest inSTO projects, and to companies looking to raise capital through STO to finance business expansion or new ventures. Investors will be presented with vetted projects incl. due- diligence reports and will be able to manage their investments through our platform.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Funding Round, Initial Coin Offering
Singapore, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

Reitio Protocol — We’re creating an effortless way for everyone to create custom metaverse assets visually via an intuitive and codeless templates-based design toolkit, introducing reitio protocol.
Alphadex — Alphadex is the ultimate cross-chain AMM, incubator and NFT launchpad powered by Moonriver.
Web3Auth — Web3Auth is simple, non-custodial auth infrastructure that enables Web3 wallets and applications to provide seamless user logins for both mainstream and native Web3 users.

Mariano Conti is a Head of Smart Contracts at Maker Foundation.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Financial Services, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Astaria — Astaria is the solution to the hardest problem in Defi: instant highly liquid NFT lending. Astaria allows users to get instant liquidity for their NFTs.
GitPOAP — GitPOAP is a decentralized reputation platform that represents off-chain accomplishments and contributions on chain as POAPs.
LAGO — LAGO helps to bridge the traditional and digital art world with interactive, gesture control, curation, voice control and providence.

Hailstone Ventures is a venture capital firm.

Investment focus

FinTech, Finance, Software
Seed, Series A
United States, Australia

Portfolio highlights

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
Volare Finance — Volare Finance provides a transparent, trustless, and convenient decentralized option trading without intermediaries.
Narwhal Finance — Contact our sign company in Pasadena, TX, for high-quality and durable signs. We also provide installation, repairs, and more for your business signs!

Three Arrows Capital is a hedge fund manager that provides risk-adjusted returns. The firm was established in 2012 by Su Zhu and Kyle Davies and is headquartered in Singapore, Central Region, Singapore.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Singapore, China

Portfolio highlights

Laevitas — Laevitas is a data analytics platform based on quantitative finance models for the crypto-asset market. The company aims to provide analysis by implementing mathematical models on data from a variety of crypto-asset derivatives markets
Delio — Crypto Financial Services Provider
Orderly Network — Orderly Network is the omnichain liquidity layer with robust SDK for Web3 DeFi builders, while enhancing spot & derivatives trading in DeFi.

We are the builders of Algorand, the high performance Layer-1 blockchain. Let us unlock the power of Algorand for you.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
Seed, Grant, Series A
Argentina, United States, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Koibanx — KOIBANX is a software company focused on Smart Contracts and Blockchain Services.Koibanx solutions cover a wide range of use cases defined by their Transparency, Security, LowCost and Efficiency of applying Blockchain technology.These new decentralized software solutions have the potential to disrupt several industries rangingfrommarketing rewards to financial inclusion, allowing a democratic access to new opportunities formillions of new consumers across the world.
PlanetWatch — We leverage advanced technologies of the population to improve environmental monitoring worldwide and help protect public health
Rand — Distributed Finance is a distributed financial services provider driving NFTs and DAOs on Algorand, setting the gold standard for others.

Giving Australian founders access to the education, capital and networks needed to build significant, sustainable, global businesses of the future.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Education
Pre-Seed, Seed
Australia, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Nucanon — Narrative design software for game developers
Tability — Automate the boring parts of OKRs to cut the waste and spend more time doing what really matters.
Omni Biotech — Omni Biotech builds health and performance algorithms that work on all hardware platforms.

0xMaki is a SushiSwap's co-founder.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Software, Web3
Funding Round, Seed, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Burrata — Burrata landing page.
Blur — Blur aims to solve these problems and move the NFT space toward becoming institutional-grade while increasing decentralization.
Ref Finance — Ref Finance is a DeFi platform built on NEAR Protocol that costs less than $0.01 for transactions.

Circle helps businesses and developers harness the power of digital dollar stablecoins for payments and internet commerce worldwide. Learn more today!

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Kravata — Kravata is the first crypto as a service company in Latam. Our capabilities will enable any business operating in Latam to launch compliant crypto solutions in a fast and low-cost way, through their app or website, via a simple API integration.
Securitize — Securitize is modernizing capital markets by enabling digital securities, making it easier for eligible investors to own, manage, and trade digital securities within designated capital markets for equity, funds, fixed income, and real estate. Securitize is the only SEC Registered Transfer Agent integrated with multiple regulated US-basedmarketplaces with a working protocol and live issuers. The company also offers KYC/AML and capital management services. Securitize, Inc. is not a registered broker-dealer and does not make any endorsement of offerings.
Superform Labs — THE UNIVERSAL INTERFACE FOR YIELD IS FORMING

Double Peak Group is a family office focused on investments in the digital asset and blockchain space.As one of the first family offices based out of Asia focused on digital assets, we have been deeply entrenched in the crypto space since 2017. At Double Peak, we adopt a philosophy of value investing and making key investments with a long timehorizon in early funding rounds and secondary markets. The ultimate vision is to bridge cutting-edge decentralized technologies between China and International markets.Our team consists of talented people with institutional backgrounds. Namely, investment banking, private equity, venture capital and entrepreneurship.Double Peak have invested in a multitude of areas including: Asset Management, Banking & Payments, Cross-Chain Platforms, CeFi-DeFi Bridges, Infrastructure Protocols, Investment Funds, Gaming/GameFi, NFTs, Privacy/Security, The Metaverse, Trading and Exchanges.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Series A, Initial Coin Offering
United States, Singapore, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Farcana — Experience fast-paced 4v4 PvP battles in a futuristic sci-fi landscape. Compete as one of 24 Stars with unique abilities to dominate the arena.
Access Protocol — Publish written content. Mint NFTs. Build communities on Discord & Telegram. All under a single subscription.
Movement Labs — Movement Labs is the creator of the Movement SDK, a modular framework to build and deploy Move-based infrastructure, applications, and blockchains in any distributed environment. The team is building a suite of products and services that empower non-Move protocols to leverage the power of the Move Programming Language without writing a single lineof Move code. The team’s first release, M1, redefines the L1 as a Vertically Composable and Horizontally Scalable Layer 1 Framework that is Solidity-compatible, connects EVM and Move liquidity, and lets builders customize modular and interoperable app-chains with a diverse base of users and liquidity accessible out of the box.

Victor Tran is a senior backend engineer and Linux system administrator. He is experienced in building high performance multi-platform applications. Victor has been involved in blockchain and cryptocurrency development since early 2016 and is a lead engineer at the SmartPool project.

Investment focus

Portfolio highlights

RISE Labs — The Based Gigagas EVM Layer 2

Vitalik Buterin is the Founder & Developer of TOKENEO. He previously worked at NextThought, LLC as a Developer Intern. Vitalik Buterin attended the University of Waterloo.

Investment focus

Software, Blockchain, Ethereum
Seed, Angel, Series A
United States, United Kingdom, Israel

Portfolio highlights

RISE Labs — The Based Gigagas EVM Layer 2
Truemarket — Truemarkets is a decentralized prediction platform.
Rarimo Foundation — Rarimo Foundation, which aims to facilitate the development and growth of a new generation of social applications.

Chris is an Australian entrepreneur and investor based in Munich, Germany. He co-founded Australia's largest comparison shopping site Getprice.com.au in 2005 and sold it to News Corp in 2010. He became News Corp's Executive Director of Commerce before leading a management buyout of Getprice in 2012, then repositioned the business asNext Commerce, including acquiring south east Asian price comparison Pricepanda and securing investment from Rocket Internet, Tengelmann Ventures, PLDT and Kinnevik, before selling the group to UK-listed Future plc in 2016.Chris also co-founded programmatic video business Audience TV, native ecommerce advertising company Hynt.com and the autonomous vehicle software company Unleash Aerial.Chris is also the founding investor and chairman of Munich-based vacation rentals business Holidu and an industrial advisor to Swedish private equity group EQT.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Internet
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Germany, Australia, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Holidu — Holidu is a search engine for vacation rentals. Search and compare more than 15 million vacation homes and save up to 55% on identical accommodations.
Classcamp — Classcamp is building the next generation of online learning. Our unique group-learning format is 10x more engaging than conventional online courses, by leveraging community and human-to-human interaction. We're building the tooling required to run a next-gen online teaching business, as well a consumer-facing marketplace for discoveringnext-gen programs.
Knowunity — Knowunity is the digital learning platform with summaries, study notes, presentations, answers, and more in one app.

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.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Gaming, Financial Services
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Singapore, Taiwan

Portfolio highlights

KlayCity — KlayCity is a P2E virtual world where district NFT owners can govern, explore and earn while enjoying the gaming experience.
LiveArtX — LiveArtX is a premium NFT platform that connects the art world with web3. Built by art industry leaders, LiveArtX brings creators, collaborators, and collectors into the metaverse.
Ajuna Network — Ajuna Network is a decentralized ecosystem for gamers and creators.

Defiance Capital is a Decentralized Finance (DeFi) focused cryptoasset fund that combines fundamental research with an activist investment approach.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Singapore, Canada

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.
Sanctum — Sanctum offers the ability to launch millions of new LSTs utilizing solana.

Maeve Ventures is an independent firm that specializes in blockchain, cryptography, and other digitization technology enabling new businesses.

Investment focus

Gaming, Bitcoin, Software
Seed, Funding Round
Australia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Amasa — Amasa puts a new world of income streaming in the palm of your hand. Combine, stabilise and amplify micro income streams of cryptocurrencies. We want to help people improve their financial position, and be producers and participants, not products.
reNFT — Multi-chain NFT rental protocol and platform that can be whitelabel integrated into any project to enable collateral-free in-house renting, lending, and rev-share. Start building!
DeHorizon — With the rapid growth of crypto space, recent developments have greatly facilitated GameFi in going mainstream. "Play to earn" is no longer a mere slogan, but has fully come into reality. Regardless of exponential growth, a common defect in GameFi marketplace is lack of a Metaverse Game Ecosystem to develop, connect and support more andmore blockchain-based games even built on different chains. We are still in the early stages of the evolution of GameFi. For the next stage, a Metaverse Game Ecosystem is essential to make GameFi go further. That is why DeHorizon comes.

KeyChain Capital is an investment firm.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Gaming, FinTech
Seed
Australia, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Envio — Envio is a dev-friendly, speed-optimized, modern blockchain indexing solution that addresses the limitations of traditional blockchain indexing approaches and gives developers peace of mind. By harnessing the power of Envio, developers can overcome the challenges posed by latency, reliability, and costs across various sources. Envio serves as thefront door for any application’s need to access, transform, and save real-time or historical data, from any EVM smart contract.If you're a blockchain developer looking to enhance your development process and unlock the true potential of Web3 infrastructure, look no further. Join our growing community of elite developers, check out our docs, and let's work together to revolutionize the blockchain world and propel your project to the next level. Follow Envio on Twitter and/or Lenster for updates on new features, or jump into our Discord for any questions.
Time Shuffle — Crazy RPG historical battles twisting the future and past.
Portal Fantasy — Embark on a magical adventure! Capture and battle creatures, explore a beautiful world, and discover the mysteries of Pyli Kingdom in this pixel-art RPG.

The emergence of bitcoin and subsequent blockchain technologies has generated a new digital asset class in which scarcity is based on mathematical properties. Through cryptographic verification and game-theoretic equilibrium, blockchain-based digital assets can be created, issued, and transmitted using the software. Polychain Capital is committedto exceptional returns for investors through actively managed portfolios of these blockchain assets.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Singapore, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

AltLayer — AltLayer is a system of highly scalable application-dedicated execution layers that derive security from an underlying L1/L2.
Monkey Tilt — Monkey Tilt is a crypto fantasy sports platform. It is a cryptocurrency-enabled gambling platform.
Talus Network — Talus Network is an innovative blockchain platform that aims to decentralize artificial intelligence.

Valhalla Capital makes strategic investments and provides long-term support to some of the most promising start-ups in the space. Whether that’s helping with team formation, capital introductions, tokenomics design and review, or go-to-market strategy, we’ll be here, rolling up our sleeves to take our teams to the next level.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Financial Services, FinTech
Seed, Initial Coin Offering, Series B
Switzerland, United States, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Gora — Goracle is a oracle network built on the Algorand blockchain, designed to bring real world data to smart contracts.
Decent Labs — We are rebuilding trust in technology. Decent Labs is developing a more transparent and equitable society by creating startups at the cross-section of financial technology and digital rights.
Sanctum — Sanctum offers the ability to launch millions of new LSTs utilizing solana.

Supernova drives an expanding shock wave into the crypto space to trigger the formation of new DeFi stars.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Marketplace
Seed, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

NearPad — NearPad Launchpad & DeFi hub for the NEAR ecosystem
Tracer DAO — Trace Digital and Real World Markets. Build and trade with Tracer Perpetuals and gain leveraged exposure to any market in the world.
Ariadne — Ariadne is a cross-chain DeFi marketplace that is lowering the fees to enter/exit farms on multiple blockchains and saves swaps and bridges costs for both EVM and non-EVM chains. Ariadne enables users of any supported chain to enter/exit yield farms on a multitude of blockchains, with virtually no lower limit of investment, and withouthaving to deal with bridges, swaps and slippage, transaction costs on receiving blockchains etc.

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.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Singapore, India

Portfolio highlights

Othentic — Othentic provides builders with the most intuitive way to spin up a modular blockchain on top of EigenLayer
Agora — Agora operates as a cross-chain governance platform.
Puffer Finance — Earn while decentralizing Ethereum

RNR Capital is an Investment firm.

Investment focus

FinTech, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed
Australia, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Bluejay Finance — Bluejay Finance is building the first Asia-focused capital-efficient protocol for multi-currency stablecoins. The aim is to mirror the foreign exchange market in the fiat world onto the blockchain, in order to accelerate financial inclusion and access to DeFi for all users and businesses. Bluejay Finance allows stablecoins to be provided, withdeep liquidity backing directly from a DAO through protocol-owned liquidity. We designed our protocol this way in order to tackle one of the biggest challenges of building stablecoins for non-dominant currencies (e.g., USD, Euro), which is bootstrapping liquidity.Some key elements of our designs: 1. Bonding mechanism to fund stablecoin minting 2. Protocol-owned liquidity to back stablecoins 3. Stabilizer bonds for bringing stablecoins to peg
Collective Shift — Collective Shift is a research platform designed to help investors understand and navigate the world of cryptocurrency through community and education.

Simon Cant is Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Reinventure. Founded in 2013, Reinventure is a corporate venture fund with $100m under management bringing together the best of independent venture capital and corporate venturing with Westpac as the primary investor. To date, the portfolio has 16 ventures which are focused on Fintech and adjacentareas. Simon is also the founding President of FinTech Australia, the industry’s peak representative body, and a member of the Australian Treasurer’s FinTech Advisory Group.Simon has built his career in venture and innovation including advising leadership and innovation teams at Westpac, NAB, Suncorp, Fairfax, News, APN and Tennis Australia as well as being a founding team member at Social Ventures Australia, Tinshed Angel Group, ninemsn and Austlii, where he was involved in pioneering legal expert systems. Prior to joining Austii, Simon was a solicitor with Allens.

Investment focus

Software, Technical Support, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round
New Zealand, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

CodeLingo — In Flow Code Collaboration for Busy Developers
Tracer DAO — Trace Digital and Real World Markets. Build and trade with Tracer Perpetuals and gain leveraged exposure to any market in the world.
Mycelium — Read up on information about Mycelium DAO.

Mechanism Capital is an investment firm that invests in the cryptocurrency industry with a focus on decentralized finance or DeFi.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Singapore, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Breakout — Breakout is a crypto-native prop business that trades on the most liquid centralized exchanges.
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.

Apollo Capital invests in crypto assets on behalf of leading family office and institutional investors in Australia and further afield. Please join us investing in and learning about one of the most exciting technologies of the 21st century.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Financial Services, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Germany, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Aark — An all-in-one Crypto Derivatives Exchange: Perpetuals, Futures, Options, Margin, and Exotics.
Singularity — Portal Gate operates as a compliant on-chain gateway to privacy and anonymity.
Maverick Protocol — Trade. Earn. Any Asset. Stop paying for price discovery. Enjoy higher capital efficiency.

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