Top 50 Cryptocurrency VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Australia in January 2025
A list of 50 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 VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Australia in January 2025
Investor | Cryptocurrency Australia investments |
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Framework Ventures | 5 |
Circle Ventures | 2 |
SkyVision Capital | 2 |
Solana Ventures | 2 |
Multicoin Capital | 2 |
BitScale | 2 |
Brisbane Angels | 2 |
Algorand Foundation | 2 |
Maven 11 Capital | 2 |
The LAO | 2 |
DeFiance Capital | 1 |
Woodstock Fund | 1 |
Yield Yak | 1 |
KeyChain Capital | 1 |
FBG Capital | 1 |
Amesten Capital | 1 |
Bison Capital (China) | 1 |
ChaiTech Ventures | 1 |
Gate Labs | 1 |
Hash CIB | 1 |
Simurg Labs | 1 |
O-DE Capital Partners | 1 |
MH Ventures | 1 |
The Spartan Group | 1 |
LD Capital | 1 |
GSR | 1 |
Cluster Capital | 1 |
Digital Asset Capital Management | 1 |
Polychain | 1 |
Fulgur Ventures | 1 |
Muhabbit Capital Ventures | 1 |
Supernova | 1 |
TPS Capital | 1 |
Blackbird Ventures | 1 |
Artesian VC | 1 |
Spark Digital Capital | 1 |
Koji Capital | 1 |
Valhalla Capital | 1 |
BlockTower Capital | 1 |
Yield Guild Games | 1 |
Skalata | 1 |
Tribeca Investment Partners | 1 |
Lightning Ventures | 1 |
Three Arrows Capital | 1 |
Meld ventures | 1 |
Apollo Crypto | 1 |
Circle | 1 |
OK Group | 1 |
Thorney Investment | 1 |
Moonwhale Ventures | 1 |
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Australia, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Evidently — Evidently is a Cognitive AI platform powering the future of data-driven medicine. The EHR-embedded Evidently app gives clinicians superpowers to provide faster and better care.
- Avalon Finance — The liquidity hub for BTC LSDFi and CeDeFi Lending.Borrow stablecoins at Fixed rates starting as low as 8%.
- Uranium Digital — Uranium Digital is astartup that uses tokenization to target the uranium market. The business represents uranium ore with blockchain tokens, facilitating smooth transactions in this highly regulated and initially underfunded industry.
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.
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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.
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.
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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 — Amnis Finance is a staking technology built on the Aptos blockchain. It is the game-changing liquid staking solution that offers a simple way to earn rewards on your APT tokens. By staking with Amnis, your tokens remain liquid and may be utilized in a variety of DeFi applications, earning additional incentives.
- Nexus Interactive — Nexus Interactive gives collective growth and accrued value to its ecosystem.
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.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Singapore, Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Regolith Labs — Regolith Labs is the operator of a software company dedicated to assisting token airdrops in defending against sybil assaults and spam.
- 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.
Multicoin Capital is a thesis-driven investment firm that invests in cryptocurrencies, tokens, and blockchain companies reshaping trillion-dollar markets.
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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.
BitScale invest in teams and solutions that bring transparency and efficiency to our world with cutting-edge technologies.
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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.
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.
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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.
- Okkular — Okkular is an AI based fashion tech startup.
- 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.
Fulfilling the global promise of blockchain technology by leveraging the Algorand protocol and open source software for an inclusive ecosystem.
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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.
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.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Bleap — Connect your wallet. Buy crypto easily. Send it to your friends. Pay for dinner. Split bills.
- Superform Labs — THE UNIVERSAL INTERFACE FOR YIELD IS FORMING
- Accountable — Verifiable Yield Opportunities
The LAO is a global group of Ethereum enthusiasts and experts supporting the work of Ethereum builders.
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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.
- Keyp — Improve onboarding and payments in your games & apps effortlessly with OAuth logins and debit card transactions. Use simple API calls to verify users, create, transfer & airdrop assets.
- Solv Protocol — Decentralized Liquidity Infrastructure
Defiance Capital is a Decentralized Finance (DeFi) focused cryptoasset fund that combines fundamental research with an activist investment approach.
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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.
Woodstock Fund is a multi-asset investment fund that focuses on early and growth-stage Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) startups.
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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.
Yield Yak is a cryptocurrency website that provides tools for DeFi users.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Finance, Cryptocurrency
- Seed
- Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Colony Lab — Colony Lab is a community-driven initiative to power the Avalanche Platform growth by investing in early-stage projects.
- Geode Finance — Geode Finance is a first of its kind white label liquid staking solution, tailor-made for DAOs.
- Platypus Finance — Platypus invents a whole new AMM on Avalanche - Open liquidity single-sided AMM managing risk autonomously based on the coverage ratio, allowing maximal capital efficiency.
KeyChain Capital is an investment firm.
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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.
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
- Poglin — Poglin is a metaverse game IP developer and operator specializes in producing rich and engaging gaming environments.
- 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.
- 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.
Amesten Capital is a seed investment fund focussed on early stage startups across various verticals.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Financial Services, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Initial Coin Offering
- India, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Carret — Discover your gateway to crypto wealth with Carret, your trusted Crypto Trading Platform. Invest confidently and earn up to 17% APY on stable-coins. Start earning now with Carret and unlock the potential of your crypto investments.
- Acknoledger — Ackno API will consist of UCNS and Ackno plagiarism engine that will be used by NFT platforms, NFT Marketplaces, Metaverses, and Digital Universes UCNS will adopt a decentralized approach to provide unique identifier for any content that is validated across Metaverses and NFT platforms AcknoLedger will collaborate with the current NFT and MetaverseEcosystem Partners to deploy UCNS solutions to their existing Digital Assets
- 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.
Bison Capital is an investment firm provides focus on medical, media and financial fields and deals in M&A transactions.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Biotechnology, Market Research
- Series C
- China
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.
- Help Therapeutics — Help Stem Cell Innovations Co. Ltd. is the first biotechnology company in China to use iPSC-induced pluripotent stem cell technology to regenerate myocardial, liver, nerve and other tissues and organs. Relying on this core technology, Elp Regenerative Medicine is committed to building a national biological sample bank and cell preparation center,leading the frontier of cell therapy, promoting the clinical transformation of regenerative medicine, and solving the clinically unresolvable degenerative and functional impairment diseases. Reshape human health.
ChaiTech Venturesmission is to democratize access to next-generation financial solutions through strategic investments in blockchain technology.
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Investment focus
- FinTech
- Seed
- United Kingdom
Gate is the all-in-one, camera smart lock. See visitors live, say hello through two-way audio, or unlock the door and let them in right on your smartphone!
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Investment focus
- Internet, Software, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Initial Coin Offering, Series A
- Singapore, Japan, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- PoseiSwap — PoseiSwap is a decentralized exchange service provider.
- 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.
HashCIB offers financial solutions in the crypto-asset markets.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Apps, Software
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Singapore
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.
- 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.
- Liquorice — Liquorice is a developer of a DeFi protocol that combines one-sided loan pools with a MEV-free trading engine.
Simurg Labs is a pioneering force in the blockchain industry, founded by a team with extensive experience.
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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.
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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.
MH Ventures is a world class community-backed Venture Capital investing in top blockchain projects of the future
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
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.
- bitSmiley — BitSmiley offers comprehensive Bitcoin DeFi solutions to bridge the stablecoin and lending infrastructure gaps within the Bitcoin ecosystem. Its main product is an over-collateralized stablecoin based on Bitcoin. Users can utilize Bitcoin as collateral for BitSmileyDAO and Mint BitUSD.
- Fraction AI — Fraction AI is the best human-generated data for training your AI models.
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.
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
- GAM3S.GG — Your home of web3 gaming offering game discovery, reviews, guides, news & quests for a full experience.
- Ola — Ola is a ZKVM-based, High-performance, Privacy-focused layer2 platform.
- Earn Network — Onboarding millions to make billions in DeFi economy
GSR is the global leader in crypto trading and market-making. We specialize in providing liquidity, trading and risk management solutions.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- FLock.io — FLock.io aims to build a decentralised privacy-preserving solution for Artificial Intelligence.
- Hyperbolic — Access open-source inference and compute at a fraction of the cost. Build with us.
- 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.
Cluster Capital is a global network of crypto investors, media influencers, and entrepreneurs.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Internet, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, Australia, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Shadow War — Shadow War is a 5v5 competitive PvP action game for PC and Console. Fight online in a futuristic cyberpunk world
- Gasp — Trade crypto without gas, front-running & MEV. L1 chain powered by Substrate. Start trading with Mangata X.
- Metropolis World Ltd — Welcome to Metropolis, an ecosystem merging gamified commerce, RWAs, gaming, cutting-edge AI technology, and culture into a vibrant virtual hub where the boundaries between digital and physical realities blur.
Digital Asset Capital Management is a specialist, global investment manager in the digital asset, or cryptocurrency sector. The Company's first fund, Digital Asset Fund, provides sophisticated and institutional investors with access to this exciting, yet very specialised sector. DACM also manages DAF Liquid Venture Fund, a specialist fundinvesting in seed or initial round financing opportunities in the digital asset sector as well as DAF Greeks, a market-neutral fund delivering returns from monetising volatility and market inefficiencies.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
- Seed, Funding Round, Initial Coin Offering
- United States, Australia, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Kelp DAO — Kelp DAO is intended to provide liquidity to illiquid assets put on restaking platforms such as EigenLayer.
- Mitosis — Mitosis is an EOL L1 blockchain that redefines the DeFi LP experience. EOL implements economies of scale to asset management and empowers LPs with increased bargaining power.
- Zeta Markets — Trade crypto like never before. Zeta lets you trade all your favorite assets at lightning speed without compromising security.
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.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Singapore, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Berachain — Berachain claims that its technology will enable staked assets to be utilised in DeFi protocols, increasing on-chain liquidity and capital efficiency. Staked assets, such as staked ether (ETH), are now locked while being utilised to safeguard the underlying blockchain's network. Berachain claims that its "proof of liquidity"consensus will allow users to stake assets on Berachain while also trading, borrowing, or lending on-chain.
- MilkyWay — MilkyWay is a Liquid Staking protocol
- 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.
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.
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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.
Muhabbit Capital Ventures is a research-driven early-stage private venture capital incubating and investing in diverse cryptocurrency and blockchain startups.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Blockchain, Gaming
- Seed, Funding Round
- Australia, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Dexalot — A revolutionary decentralized exchange aiming at bringing the traditional centralized exchange look and feel through a decentralized on-chain application
- Vee Finance — Bridge the gap between traditional banking and crypto Defi Earn fixed/flexible return on deposited assets
- Time Shuffle — Crazy RPG historical battles twisting the future and past.
Supernova drives an expanding shock wave into the crypto space to trigger the formation of new DeFi stars.
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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.
We develop and deploy our own proprietary, state of the art trading algorithms to take advantage of arbitrage opportunities.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Series A, Initial Coin Offering
- Australia, Switzerland, United States
Portfolio highlights
- zkLend — zkLend is an L2 money-market protocol built on StarkNet, combining zk-rollup scalability, superior transaction speed, and cost-savings with Ethereum’s security.
- Blocklords — Be part of the most ambitious strategy game of our age.
- Balthazar NFT Gaming — Balthazar is on a mission to empower the biggest community of gamers to create a self-sustaining,
Blackbird is a venture capital fund based in Australia and New Zealand. We invest in every type of technology from software to space, unified by the biggest of ambitions.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Australia, United States, New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
- Marqo — A tensor-based search and analytics engine that seamlessly integrates with your applications, websites, and workflows.
- Tracksuit — Tracksuit has created beautiful, always-on, and radically affordable brand tracking for modern consumer brands. Brand marketers and leaders at consumer brands have access to enterprise-tier brand tracking, specifically built for them, at a price point that works. Teams can easily track awareness, consideration, preference and brand associationsfrom real humans within the wider market, and compare results against competitors.
- Gilmour Space Technologies — Gilmour Space is a rocket company in Australia that is developing and launching low-cost small satellite launch vehicles. All orbits, all planets: https://www.gspacetech.com
Artesian Capital Management is an alternative investments management company, which was spun out of ANZ Banking Group's capital markets business in 2004, with backing from ANZ Private Equity. Artesian's founding partners, purchased ANZ's stake in 2005. The company has subsequently been fully owned by partners and staff. Since 2004,Artesian has managed specialised funds focused on credit arbitrage and relative-value strategies across global financial markets. In 2008, while continuing to manage credit relative value investment strategies from its New York, London and Singapore offices, Artesian began to make principal investments in seed/early-stage ventures from its offices in Sydney, Melbourne and Shanghai. In 2011, Artesian launched the first of its early stage venture capital funds and now manages AUD +255m. Artesian's VC strategy is to partner with best of breed accelerators, incubators, angel groups and university programs. In 2017, Artesian launched its China VC Fund with a USD 50m cornerstone investment industry super fund Hostplus. Artesian will soon launch a Southeast Asia VC Fund.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Australia, United States, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- Bygen — Bygen delivers high-quality activated carbon products while also facilitating large-scale, long-term carbon dioxide sequestration.
- Sitemate — Sitemate builds user friendly software which thousands of industrial companies use every day to streamline their paperwork and processes.
- Braingaze — Braingaze solves major challenges around cognitive disorders of the brain. We use a patented neuro-biomarker based on small involuntary eye movements. These are triggered by functional games, the resulting signal is analysed using algorithms trained by Deep Learning based on actual real patient / control cases. We adress pre-symptomatic stagesof Alzheimer's disease and the most common child cognitive disorder ADHD. Our tools are on the market and covered by a CE Mark as a medical device. Our pipeline includes detection / diagnostic tools as well as digital therapy solutions that have shown to reduce symtoms by over 50%.
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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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Singapore, United States, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- Dmail — Dmail Network is a decentralized mailbox that provides a safe and private environment for users' communication, storage, tokens, and NFTs. The company was founded by Mittal S. and Lucas L. in 2021.
- Range Protocol — Permissionless Infrastructure for Smart Money Management. We are the leading gateway to smart on-chain money managers, bringing maximised yields and optimal capital efficiency to users of different risk profiles.
- The Animal Age — Animal-based metaverse that brings together animal lovers and animal clubs worldwide.
Koji Capital is a venture capital firm cultivating community. We invest in early stage crypto projects enriching the Web3 ecosystem.
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- Financial Services, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Australia, Cayman Islands
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- Rigor — Rigor decentralizes lending and coordinates payment flows with construction logistics.
- 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.
- Ready Player DAO — Ready Player DAO is a future of gaming is decentralized and permissionless platform.
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.
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- Blockchain, Financial Services, FinTech
- Seed, Initial Coin Offering, Series B
- Switzerland, United States, Australia
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- 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.
BlockTower is a leading cryptoasset investment firm, applying professional trading, investing and portfolio management to an emerging digital asset class.
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Australia, Singapore
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- Anon — A powerful developer toolkit to seamlessly request, access, and manage user identity.
- Architect — Architect gives traders customizable infrastructure that reimagines access to international markets for digital assets. Building institutional-grade infrastructure to link different crypto venues across centralized and decentralized exchanges is one of the project's goals.
- Superform Labs — THE UNIVERSAL INTERFACE FOR YIELD IS FORMING
Yield Guild Games (YGG) is a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) for investing in non fungible tokens (NFTs) used in virtual worlds and blockchain-based games. The organization’s mission is to create the biggest virtual world economy, optimizing its community-owned assets for maximum utility, and sharing its profits with its token holders.
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- Gaming, Blockchain, Video Games
- Seed, Funding Round, Initial Coin Offering
- United States, Singapore, Australia
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- XOCIETY — The XOCIETY metaverse is being developed by a well-established team of over 50 developers with decades of experience in the tech and web2 gaming fields.
- Blade of God X — Blade of God X provides cross-platform play as an optimum medium and way of interaction between people and the virtual world.
- Pentagon Games — Pioneering the Future of Gaming Development and Distribution. In the fast-evolving gaming landscape, Pentagon Games stands at the forefront, marrying the digital with the physical through groundbreaking AI and Web3 technologies.
Giving Australian founders access to the education, capital and networks needed to build significant, sustainable, global businesses of the future.
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- Software, Information Technology, Marketplace
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Australia, United States, United Kingdom
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- TALY — TALY is a platform that is designed to find, manage and retain employees from both perfromance and personality for business development.
- Viewa — Viewa is an augmented reality(AR) content publishing platform that brings print media such as magazines to life in 3D.
- Enrola — Looking for online training courses? Discover the perfect course for you with our easy course advisor quiz. Get individual guidance and apply directly.
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.
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- Farming, Agriculture, Social Impact
- Seed, Funding Round
- Australia
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- 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.
Lightning Ventures is an exclusively Bitcoin focused network of investors, operators, and developers, dedicated to supporting Lightning Network adoption worldwide
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- Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Canada, France
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- JAN3 — JAN3 is a Bitcoin technology company focused on expanding access to Bitcoin and financial freedom around the world.
- Vida — The AI phone agent for small business. Answer calls and texts with an AI phone agent that always works and is never busy. number that answers calls and texts with AI.
- OrdinalsBot — We make it easy to inscribe ordinals. Like, really easy.
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.
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Singapore, China
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- 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.
Meld Ventures is an Australian-based firm dedicated to backing the next wave of blockchain entrepreneurs.
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
- Seed, Grant, Funding Round
- Italy, France, Australia
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- Wayru — Wayru is a decentralized Internet service provider for the urban development world aiming to democratize Internet access
- 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.
- Prismatic — bDollar is an algorithmic multi-pegstablecoin running on Binance Smart-chain. Completely decentralized on-chain governance Presented by Bearn.fi, bDollar is the first algorithmic stablecoin on Binance Smart Chain with an innovative solution that can adjust its supply deterministically to move the price of the token in the direction of a target price to bring programmability and interoperability to
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.
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- Blockchain, Financial Services, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Germany, Australia
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- 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.
Circle helps businesses and developers harness the power of digital dollar stablecoins for payments and internet commerce worldwide. Learn more today!
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, Singapore
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- Shinami — Tools to build the next wave of decentralized applications
- Huma — Huma is an Income backed DeFi.
- 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.
OK Group is a reputed blockchain technology and service provider focused on the research and development of the technology and its all-scenario applications. The Group provides infrastructure services for the blockchain industry.
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- Cryptocurrency, Financial Services, FinTech
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, Brazil, Australia
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- Wyre — Wyre is a developer of a blockchain-based payment platform designed to change the future of how international payments are done. The company's platform provides real-time payouts, same-day transfers, and direct-to-bank transfers, enabling businesses to move money across borders from country-to-country at a competitive foreign exchange rate.Wyre's business owners can easily create an account and send money to any person or business without worrying about high foreign exchange rates, hidden fees, complicated payout timing, and high payment fees. It also provides onramps and off-ramps, foreign exchange, and crypto liquidity to users of various crypto projects including decentralized exchanges.Wyre was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA.
- Foxbit — Aprenda como investir em criptomoedas com a Foxbit, uma das maiores exchanges de criptoativos do Brasil! Pare de adiar sua liberdade financeira, vem pra Foxbit!
- XanPool — Buy and Sell Bitcoin around the World with Cash
Thorney Opportunities Ltd is an investment company. The Company's principal activity is making investments in listed securities. The Company is focused on producing absolute returns for shareholders over the medium to long-term. Its primary focus is on the selection of investments, which enable it to be a catalyst towards unlocking the valuein the companies that it identifies. The Company's investment manager is Thorney Management Services Pty Ltd.
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- Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence
- Series A, Funding Round, Series B
- Australia, United States, Israel
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- Willed — Willed is an Australian online estate planning platform.
- Earnity — Your new favorite crypto community. Build a portfolio in minutes, copy and share collections, and discuss the latest tokens and research. Create your profile now.
- Buildxact — Buildxact is an easy to use construction management and estimating software designed for small builders and contractors. Sign up for your 14-day free trial.
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.
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- Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Funding Round, Initial Coin Offering
- Singapore, United States, India
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- 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.
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