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Top 50 Cryptocurrency Startup Investors in Canada in January 2025

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

Top 50 Cryptocurrency Startup Investors in Canada in January 2025

Investor	Cryptocurrency Canada investments
Lemniscap	4
CoinFund	4
Alameda Research	4
FJ Labs	4
ConsenSys	4
XDL Capital Group	3
CMCC Global	3
Fenbushi Capital	3
Ankr	3
Shima Capital	3
Bonfire Ventures	3
BoxOne Ventures	3
CMS Holdings	3
Tenzor Capital	3
AU21 Capital	3
Blockchain Capital	3
Digital Finance Group (DFG)	3
LedgerPrime	3
Genblock Capital	3
Diagram Ventures	3
Mosaic Ventures	2
ZMT Capital	2
Divergence Ventures	2
Double Peak Group	2
CoinGecko	2
Future Perfect Ventures	2
Digital Strategies	2
Origin Capital	2
Draper Dragon	2
Signum Capital	2
Sparkle Ventures	2
Hypersphere Ventures	2
1kx	2
Sfermion	2
Animoca Brands	2
yield ventures	2
Woodstock Fund	2
LD Capital	2
Coinbase Ventures	2
Cygni Capital	2
Initialized Capital	2
Balaji Srinivasan	2
David Zhao	1
New Brunswick Innovation Foundation	1
Owl eth	1
Fred Ehrsam	1
Jason Kim	1
Bitnomic Capital	1
Vijay Ratnaparke	1
Wave Digital Assets	1

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Lemniscap is an investment firm specialising in investments in emerging cryptoassets and blockchain startups.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Cytonic — Cytonic is a multi-virtual-machine blockchain. Cytonic is compatible with blockchains such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana.
Pulse — Pulse is a developer of an all-in-one health and wellness platform designed to integrate a wearable gadget and a fitness tracking software.
Nitro Labs — Termina is a powerful platform designed to streamline the deployment of Solana blocks through an integrated engine for the Solana Virtual Machine (SVM)

CoinFund is where web3 capable meets web3 capital: cryptonative technologists who invest in the future before it's a trend.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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.
Raad Labs — We're building the sensory network which the world's authorities have overlooked: unlocking Billions through crowdsourced weather data.
XProtocol — XProtocol is a modular entertainment chain that uses base's superchain technology to help developers create games with player-driven economies.

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.

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.

FJ Labs is a stage-agnostic investment firm that focuses on marketplaces and consumer facing startups.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Brazil, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Faks — Faks is an app development company. The company's application allows users to send faster requests, track the status of the requests, and settle any complaints, enabling the pharmacists to maintain a secure relationship with supplier laboratories.
Wurthy — Get instant access to low cost credit using your accounts receivable, so you can keep your business running smoothly.
Odyssey — Discover how Odyssey Energy Solutions unblocks bottlenecks in DRE project development. Access diverse financing, procure equipment efficiently, and remotely monitor system performance. Join over 2000 renewable energy companies that use Odyssey to scale. Get in touch today.

Build next-generation apps, launch blockchain-based financial infrastructure, and access the decentralized web with ConsenSys' Ethereum product suite.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

MemeFi — MemeFi is a blending of social technology with Web3 features on-chain Social Tech app might be focusing on integrating blockchain technology with social interactions, which could offer benefits like decentralization and enhanced privacy.
Yellow — Yellow is a financial services provider of software, analytics, and investments in blockchain startups.
aPriori — aPriori is a monad-native MEV infrastructure and liquid staking mechanism developed for parallel executions.

XDL is a Ontario-based private equity investor that invests in technology companies. Since 1996 we have supported entrepreneurs building technology related companies in new and growing business sectors. XDL is primarily a private equity investor. They invest their own monies, uniting their interests with each investee. They provide focusedattention on their investments, sharing experience, networks and knowledge to help the entrepreneurs grow and prosper.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Infrastructure
Seed, Series D, Series A
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Nuco — Nuco is a crypto marketing agency focusing on PR, SEO and Social. We specialize in web3 and blockchain clients, but also do SEO for gambling.
Figment — Figment: Staking, middleware, and application layer solutions for investors and developers investing in and building on Web 3 technology.
MIMOSA Diagnostics — MIMOSA Diagnostics is an m-health tech startup with a novel handheld device and integrated smartphone app for image visualization of skin health. MIMOSA is bringing medical grade technology out of hospitals and into the hands of patient consumers. The value proposition for MIMOSA’s AI diagnostic data warehouse will provide metadata insightsintegrated with patient EMR/EHR systems. Our first commercial entry launch is in the Diabetes sector, with future expansion to follow into other therapeutic areas.MIMOSA diagnostics puts the future of skin health into your hands. The MIMOSA is one of the few handheld multispectral skin imaging devices in the healthcare industry. Our proprietary algorithms risk profile the skin in various clinical settings. Our technology will allow healthcare to be equitable, efficient, and more personalized for all.

CMCC Global is one of Asia’s first venture capital funds focused solely on blockchain investments, with offices in North America and Asia.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Web3
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Canada, Germany

Portfolio highlights

BoxBet — BoxBet casino and sports betting app
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!
Accountable — Verifiable Yield Opportunities

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.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

FLock.io — FLock.io aims to build a decentralised privacy-preserving solution for Artificial Intelligence.
Huma — Huma is an Income backed DeFi.
Igloo — Our mission is to create the largest onchain community, driving the consumer crypto revolution.

Get faster, more reliable multi-chain development tools

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
Seed, Grant, Series A
Canada, United States, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

VIP3 — VIP3 is the FIRST all-in-one web3 benefits and membership platform, providing users with rewards and discounts.
Playbux — At Playbux, we believe that the Metaverse is more than just another world; it is indeed a way for us to connect other platforms into our world.
AlterVerse — Discover AlterVerse, an immersive free-to-play game coming to the Epic Store. Explore endless possibilities in our boundless sandbox environment where survival skills are key. Join the adventure today!

Shima Capital is an investment fund that focuses on supporting blockchain startups. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.

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.

Bonfire Ventures leads Seed rounds for business software solutions company founders transforming the industries they target.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, France

Portfolio highlights

Mithrl — Mithrl is a software development company that builds the custom workflows for NGS data on-demand.
CalmWave — Transparent AI for reducing alarm fatigue and nurse burnout. ICU noise reduction via tailored, patient-specific alarm configurations and data-based insights.
Reactiv — Reactiv is an AI-powered mobile app platform to help you sell more and increase retention, without the headache of managing another channel

BoxOne Ventures is a privately held investment firm that focuses on early-stage companies across the most impactful, interesting and fast-changing sectors.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Canada, United States, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Talus Bio — Talus Bioscience combines functional proteomics, automated biology, and machine learning to target hard-to-treat transcription factors driving cancer & beyond.
CytoTronics — Visualize live cell function at scale for cell biology discovery with Pixel systems. Monitor cell viability, morphology, electrophysiology, metabolism and more.
Axonis Therapeutics — AXONIS Therapeutics, Inc. is advancing breakthrough discoveries to develop first-in-class therapies for neurological disorders.

CMS is a principal investment company that focuses on investing in the crypto-asset ecosystem. The firm plans to invest in both liquid and illiquid crypto tokens, as well as equity interests in select businesses.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

LOScoin — LOScoin is a web3 gaming and social application based on telegram bot. LOScoin is committed to profoundly combining Web3's novel interactive experience with the passion of LOScoin's MEME community, creating a highly engaging, entertaining, and economically active DAO community, and providing users with a completely new gaming and socialexperience.
Magma — Magma is a decentralized liquid staking protocol built on the Monad Network, an Ethereum-compatible Layer 1 blockchain.
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.

Investments we power the web3 pioneers, builders and enablers

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Zyfi — Zyfi is building the best on-chain user experience by leveraging paymasters and intents, powered by ZKsync
Zeko Labs — Zeko Labs is a zero-knowledge cross-chain scaling protocol built on Mina and designed for developers shaping the future of finance, AI, gaming, and the internet.
KOKODI — KOKODI is a cross-chain, multi-platform MMO game that allows players to play with zero-knowledge cryptography.

A fund dedicated to backing the most brilliant minds in the blockchain space

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.

Partners to crypto builders since 2013.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Yellow Card — Buy and Sell BTC, ETH, USDT & More in Africa | Yellow Card
Bluesky — Bluesky is a new social media platform.
Drift — Drift brings on-chain, cross-margined perpetual futures to Solana. Making futures DEXs the best way to trade.

Digital Finance Group (DFG) is a global blockchain and cryptocurrency investment firm. DFG was founded in 2015 and has assets under management of over $1 billion.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

PrismaStake — Unleash the Power of Multi-Chain Staking and Boost Your Assets. Stake. Earn. Grow. Empowering Crypto Investors Across Multiple Blockchains.
Karmine Corp — Karmine Corp is an esports organization that offers merchandise and competes in games like league of legends, trackmania, and others.
Root Protocol — Root is building an operating system with the composition of an intent-centric aggregator of digital identity, virtual accounts, social graphs, and more to enable unified access to Web3.

LedgerPrime is a quantitative and systematic investment firm in the Digital Asset space. With a data centric approach and a commitment to rapid innovation and technology, LedgerPrime seeks to become a global leader in generating sustained and superior risk-adjusted returns.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Wixpool — Wixpool is a liquidity mining mechanism that is based on the Wixpool Rate Stabiliser (WRS) algorithm. Wixpool, led by WRS, allows anybody to invest in high-yield liquidity pools with a steady interest rate by pooling the assets of private users into an automated ecosystem.
Elixir — Elixir is a decentralized protocol that enables full composability for integrations by providing computationally secure, algorithmic market-making across CEXs and DEXs.
Frontrunner — Alexistogel atau di kenal sebagai alexistoto adalah salah satu situs slot yang sudah terpercaya dengan banyaknya yang ingin maxwin hari ini

Genblock Capital invests exclusively in blockchain and cryptocurrency, with a focus on decentralized finance.

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.

Connecting ideas, founders, and capital to build companies

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Katara — Build Accurate, Secure, and Reliable AI Agents. Agentic Self Learning Capabilities. Empower a fleet of AI workers to grow your business.
Upfront — Upfront is a company that provides smooth cash flow solutions to real estate brokers, enabling to overcome financial obstacles and achieve greater success.
Walnut Insurance — Insurance for everyone. Pick from transparent plans made for you.

We back founders who are reimagining the world. We invest $1-10m early, in those building daring adventures in Europe.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, FinTech
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Parloa — Amplify your customer service experience with a team of personal AI agents. Leverage the full power of generative AI for contact center automation.
Podcastle — Podcastle is the simplest way to create professional-quality podcasts. Record, edit, transcribe, and export your content with the power of AI, in an intuitive web-based platform.
forward earth — Next-Gen carbon management for a sustainable future. AI-driven, automated, compliant, fast, and secure. Be prepared for requirements of CSRD, SFRD, EU-Taxonomy, and kick-start your carbon reduction and abatement program. White-label options for partners.

Technology driven investment firm focused on Fintech, Mobile, Hardware, AI, Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Fuel Labs — At Fuel, we are building the fastest execution layer for the modular blockchain stack.
Root Protocol — Root is building an operating system with the composition of an intent-centric aggregator of digital identity, virtual accounts, social graphs, and more to enable unified access to Web3.
Quantstamp — Quantstamp is the leader in web3 security, securing over $200B worth of digital assets for projects like OpenSea, Maker and Curve.

Divergence Ventures

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Backd — Backd offers to maximize the power of assets and begin generating yield. Backd is a protocol for reactive liquidity decentralized finance (Defi).
Cubist — Cubist brings modern software engineering practices and first-class security to web3 builders. Cubist’s toolkit makes it safe and easy to build, test and deploy multi-chain and cross-chain dapps in automated pipelines that handle keys and sequencing.
Aperture — Aperture is a DeFi cross-chain investment ecosystem.

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

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.
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.

CoinGecko is a digital currency price and information data platform. It helps its users quantitatively evaluate and rank their coins. CoinGecko is a Singapore-based company that was founded in 2014 by TM Lee and Bobby Ong.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Wasabi — The Decentralized NFT Options Protocol
Lava Network — Lava Network aims to be a marketplace for blockchain data.
Lava Foundation — Lava Foundation is a newly founded non-profit dedicated to the development of the modular blockchain network. It is the entity that sells tokens and decides on the network's roadmap.

Future\Perfect Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm 2014 to invest globally in blockchain technology and crypto assets. FPV was founded by Jalak Jobanputra.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Rilla — Demonstrating 90% reduction in cost-to-serve for live-streaming, Rilla is rewiring the content economy, directing the value generated back to creators and their communities.By leveraging audience bandwidth and rewarding them with ownership in the network, the savings are equivalent to a free month subscription every year for a moderate level ofviewership.Founded by the technical founders behind Altered State Machine, acquired for 214m. Together for 5+ ventures, collectively raising 130m+ and valued at 1b+.
Glystn — Glystn is a reliable platform for creator analytics and insights of any scale. The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in SAN FRANCISCO, California.
CapStack Technologies — Discover Capstack, the leading bank-to-bank marketplace driving banking digital transformation. Join the innovation wave and transform your banking experience now!

Blockchain & Gaming Investments, Value add advisory.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Initial Coin Offering, Funding Round
Canada, Estonia, United States

Portfolio highlights

NFT3 — NFT3s will become a direct monetization path for individuals to associate value on their terms with various aspects of their data journeys through life with different projects, individuals, social networks, companies, and institutions.
Bitcoin.com — The world's gateway to Bitcoin & cryptocurrency. Buy, sell, spend, swap, and invest in BTC, ETH, BCH, AVAX, MATIC & hundreds more digital assets. Stay informed about crypto, DeFi, and Web3.
Treasure — The decentralized game console. Discover the magic of play on Treasure.

Origin Capital provides a real alternative to traditional funding options in the Irish commercial real estate market and is actively providing senior debt funding for investment transactions in excess of €3m. The company offers its clients the opportunity to deal directly with the decision-makers, who take a flexible approach to lending grounded incommercial common sense.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Fuel Labs — At Fuel, we are building the fastest execution layer for the modular blockchain stack.
ViaNautis — Precision Solutions
Pendle Finance — Pendle is a DeFi protocol focused on yield trading, allowing users to both fix or leverage their yield.

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...

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.

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.

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.

Sparkle Ventures is an investment firm.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
France, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Helika — Helika is a web3 product analytics platform that helps projects better understand their users, increase engagement, and drive growth.
Katara — Build Accurate, Secure, and Reliable AI Agents. Agentic Self Learning Capabilities. Empower a fleet of AI workers to grow your business.
ChainOpera AI — ChainOpera AI - The Blockchain and Protocol for Co-owning and Co-creating Decentralized AI Apps and Agents for Humanity, Backed by Federated AI OS and Platform

Hypersphere Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in and develops blockchain technology. A Hypersphere is an investment group leveraging on-chain treasuries, decentralized organizations, and governance to increase the utility of the blockchain networks in which we invest.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

PuffPaw — PuffPaw is an e-cigarette maker that uses blockchain technology to track its consumers' smoking behavior.
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.
Superform Labs — THE UNIVERSAL INTERFACE FOR YIELD IS FORMING

1kx is an early-stage investment firm focused on ecosystem growth.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Mawari — Our mission is to unlock new perspectives with real-time immersive technology powered by a decentralized network of global resources
Predicate — Predicate network simplifies transaction prerequisites.
Layer — Ethereum is the settlement layer, build full stack decentralized apps on top with Web Assembly and the EVM.

Sfermion is a multi-strategy investment firm focused on the immersive internet

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Loot Labs — Loot Labs builds ways to acquire digital collectibles.
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.
Autoverse Studios — Autoverse Studios offers Auto Legends, a competitive social auto racing game, focusing on car culture and player engagement, offering a multi-platform experience for real-time tuning and customization.

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.

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.

the ability to generate yield on your assets is the missing link that will connect the rest of the world to open finance and decentralized web3 we help teams build and grow by hosting infrastructure, designing economics, getting contracts audited, and creating simple easy access for end users

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
Funding Round, Seed, Initial Coin Offering
United States, Canada, South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Celestia — Celestia is the modular blockchain powering unstoppable applications with full-stack customizability.
Covalent — Covalent provides a unified API bringing visibility to billions of blockchain data points.
Injective — Injective is an open interoperable smart contracts layer-one blockchain network optimized for decentralized finance applications.

Woodstock Fund is a multi-asset investment fund that focuses on early and growth-stage Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) startups.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Information Technology, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, India, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

ZeroLend — ZeroLend is a user-friendly and frictionless lending experience to onboard the masses to Defi. Built on L2s
Shiba Inu Coin — Shiba Inu Coin is an Internet Publishing Company.
Router Protocol — Router Protocol is a Cross Chain Bridge. Currently live on Ethereum, Polygon, and more. Building an interoperable cross chain future of the blockchain ecosystem.

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.

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

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

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.

Investing in the future of trust (Blockchain, Privacy, AI)

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, France, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Linera — Linera is the power of decentralization for everyone, everywhere.
DeepNFTValue — Get a live estimate of the market price for any CryptoPunk by its ID or any combination of attributes.
Informal Systems — Informal Systems offer research and development at the intersection of formal verification and distributed systems.

Initialized Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on the seed. Initialized has 6 investing partners and over $3.2B under management over five core funds since its founding in 2012. The firm's startups have created in aggregate over $200B in market value so far.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

AstroForge — We mine asteroids to extract valuable minerals in space at a lower cost and smaller carbon footprint than the current terrestrial mining methods.
Beyond Aero — Beyond Aero is a Toulouse-based aerospace company founded in 2020
Star Catcher — Star Catcher is creating the first energy grid for space. Spacecraft connect to the network and receive energy via existing solar arrays, requiring no retrofit to utilize.

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.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

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.

David Zhao

Investment focus

Software, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
Pre-Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Mainstream Labs — Modular, end-to-end governance platform.

Director of Investments Every half-year, the Canadian Venture Capital Association (CVCA) reports on the status of venture capital investment in Canada, and the 2021-H1 edition is impressive.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Analytics
Seed, Funding Round, Grant
Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Tracktile — Tracktile lets you configure your manufacturing operation through inventory and production software. Gain full visibility into your operation. Talk To Us!
Triple Hair — Triple Hair is a clinical-stage Canadian biotechnology company specialized in the development of innovative treatments for alopecia. Prevent hair loss and boost hair growth.
Potential Motors — Enabling electric off-road adventure through the Adventure 1 ORV and Off-Road OS.

Owl.eth is a individual angel invetsor.

Investment focus

Ethereum, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Portals — Portals is a #DeFi yield and protocol aggregator for transaction bundling, any-to-any swaps, and real-time data

Fred Ehrsam is the Co-Founder of Paradigm.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
Seed, Series A, Series C
United States, Canada, Israel

Portfolio highlights

NewLimit — NewLimit is extending human healthspan by unlocking regenerative potential.
Wispr AI — Wispr AI is a developer of the next-generation of neural interfaces to provide seamless interface with immersive technology. The company is working with the leading neuroscientist, hardware engineers, machine learning researchers, and product engineers to bring frontier technology to the mass consumer market.
Socket — Socket fights vulnerabilities and provides visibility, defense-in-depth, and proactive supply chain protection for JavaScript, Python, and Go dependencies.

Jason Kim

Investment focus

Software, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
Pre-Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Mainstream Labs — Modular, end-to-end governance platform.

Bitnomic Capital is a venture capital investment firm.

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, Blockchain
Pre-Seed
Canada

Portfolio highlights

Vezgo — Vezgo is the easiest way for people to connect their crypto accounts to your app.

Vijay Ratnaparke is a CIO at Robert Bosch GmbH.

Investment focus

Internet, Automotive, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Angel
India, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Cultos — Our fully customizable white label solutions provides brands with a robust set of products to quickly launch a token-based loyalty program.
Pi Beam — Pi Beam builds connected e-vehicles, for two-, three-, and four-wheeler offerings for last-mile logistics, and shared and owned passenger movement.

Wave Digital Assets offers early-stage investment, asset management, treasury management, and strategy consulting to further the growth of the crypto and digital asset ecosystem.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
United States, Switzerland, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Omega — Maximize your yield by using a variety of assets as collateral to access 6x leverage to deploy & maximize yield farming across the Mantle Ecosystem.
HIFI — HiFi Bridge is a cryptocurrency payments platform that allows customers to buy and sell cryptocurrencies, trade NFT's, borrow loans, and connect their bank accounts all-in-one.The startup offers equity, cryptocurrency, and options trading, as well as cash management accounts. The company provides the accessibility for traditional financialusers to gain access to modern decentralized finance tools through it's mobile and web platform.Zach Walsh and Mohamed Afifi founded the company in New York City in 2021.
Crypto Valley Exchange — The first portfolio risk capable platform for Options & Futures trading in DeFi, offering 1000x+ leverage based on margin offset.

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