Top 5 Marketplace Startup Investors in Isle of Man in January 2025

Last updated: Jan 2025 A list of 5 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Marketplace startups based in Isle of man. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Marketplace companies from Isle of man. We update this investor list every month.

Top 5 Marketplace Startup Investors in Isle of Man in January 2025

Investor	Marketplace Isle of Man investments
Blockchain.com Ventures	1
Concentric	1
MakerDAO	1
Paolo Rubatto	1
Lightning Ventures	1

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Blockchain.com is the most popular place to securely buy, store, and trade Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other top cryptocurrencies.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Galxe — Galxe is the leading Web3 credential data network in the world. A collaborative credential infrastructure enabling brands and developers to engage communities and build robust products in Web3. (Previously known as Project Galaxy)
PolySign — PolySign develops state-of-the-art, secure, scalable infrastructure for financial institutions to fully leverage their digital assets. The company also develops a secure and scalable infrastructure for financial institutions to fully leverage their digital assets. They aim to integrate with existing financial organizations and global markets, andrigorously embrace the highest standards for regulation.
NEAR — NEAR is the chain abstraction stack, empowering builders to create apps that scale to billions of users and across all blockchains.

We partner with sector-defining founders across Europe to create new technologies that disrupt the status quo and solve the problems that matter.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Thingtrax — Realise improved efficiency, quality control, employee safety and productivity by modernising your factories with ThingTrax's AI and IoT
LN Markets — The first Lightning-native Bitcoin derivatives trading platform.
Anchor Watch — Insure your Bitcoin - Protect your bitcoin with regulated insurance and enterprise-grade multi-institutional custody.

Maker is a decentralized autonomous organization on the Ethereum blockchain.

Investment focus

Cryptocurrency, FinTech, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Poland, Isle of Man

Portfolio highlights

Multis — Multis is an all-in-one application to help web3 organizations manage their crypto-finances. Built on Gnosis Safe.
Contango — Contango is a decentralised exchange bringing expirable futures to DeFi. In DeFi, only perpetual futures exist. But since funding rates are unpredictable, traders do not have control over their costs. With expirable futures, a final price is paid upfront to avoid any bad surprises. Contango is here to bring futures with expiry dates.
Harbor — Harbor is making trade finance more accessible, user-friendly, and efficient for businesses that trade both domestically and internationally. Our programs provide end to end solutions covering the entire cash conversion cycle.

Paolo Rubatto is Managing Director of Start Capital. His background is mainly entrepreneurial, advising startups from the consumer internet to the life sciences sector in their business development strategies as well as in their fundraising. He holds an MBA from London Business School.

Investment focus

Software, Big Data, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

SAPI — SAPI builds credit products for payment companies to facilitate payment flows, engage and retain merchants, and generate new revenue.
Coindirect — BVNK is a next-generation payments platform. We're making payments as accessible and resilient as the internet.
Kosmik — Kosmik is a visual collaboration platform. Kosmik is based around a zooming user interface where you can store and edit any type of data. Kosmik is the first "dSaaS" (decentralized Software as a Service), relying on a custom designed peer-to-peer database, maximizing user privacy, offering offline first comfort and end to end encryption.

Lightning Ventures is an exclusively Bitcoin focused network of investors, operators, and developers, dedicated to supporting Lightning Network adoption worldwide