Dekrypt Capital
VC Fund
Berkeley, United States
Dekrypt Capital is a VC fund in Berkeley focused on Blockchain and Software. A blockchain investment firm with an emphasis on privacy preserving protocols and early-stage ventures. Dekrypt Capital invest in, mentor, and accelerate teams developing novel solutions to address the core issues of scalability, privacy, and usability for decentralized protocols and applications. The team works on cryptography and computersecurity research with a focus in zero knowledge proofs alongside professors at UC Berkeley and founded Blockchain at Berkeley, the largest university ecosystem for blockchain technology in the United States.
- Total investments:
- 18
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 11%
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Dekrypt Capital invests in
Stages Dekrypt Capital invests in
Countries Dekrypt Capital invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $1.5M–$3.5M
- Series A
- $15M–$45M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Blockchain 9 (50%)
- Software 5 (28%)
- Information Technology 4 (22%)
- Cryptocurrency 3 (17%)
- FinTech 2 (11%)
Stage
- Seed 6 (33%)
- Series A 5 (28%)
- Funding Round 3 (17%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 2 (11%)
- Initial Coin Offering 1 (6%)
Country
- United States 6 (33%)
- Hong Kong 2 (11%)
- Cayman Islands 2 (11%)
- China 1 (6%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Howard Wu
Managing Partner
|
Managing Partner | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Jack Baumruk
Managing Partner & Co-Founder
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Managing Partner & Co-Founder | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Jon Allen
Managing Partner
|
Managing Partner | Total investments: 4 | Find email | |
|
Ronen Kirsh
Founding Partner
|
Founding Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bisonswap is a decentralized exchange (DEX) based on the BNB Chain that enables rapid and safe token switching and liquidity providing. It enables users to trade a wide range of tokens and participate in liquidity pools to gain incentives. | Series A / Oct 08, 2024 | ||
| Aleo provides a platform for building fully private applications using zero-knowledge technology. It offers a comprehensive toolkit that includes an application runtime environment, allowing software to compile, execute, and finalize its state autonomously. Aleo also supports a statically-typed programming language called Leo, designed specificallyfor private application development on the Aleo blockchain. The company engages its community through blogs and incentive programs to test the bounds of its decentralized technology. | $28M / Series A / Apr 20, 2021 | ||
| Matter Labs is scaling Ethereum with zero-knowledge proofs to accelerate public blockchain adoption. The company started out of scientific curiosity, the joy of engineering, and a deep conviction, the most impactful way to improve the world today is to provide an open and free alternative to its existing, deeply flawed financial system.Thecompany was founded in 2018 with its head office in Berlin, Germany. | $2M / Seed / Sep 23, 2019 | ||
| Our mission at Bolt Labs is to build a usable, secure, and scalable infrastructure to enable everyone to securely store their assets while preserving the privacy of their transactions. Bolt’s secure computation solutions (or MPC) allow you to protect your user’s assets while providing confidentiality, ensuring integrity, and preventing misuse ortheft. A technology that is fast becoming the standard for digital asset security, MPC enables these benefits by federating trust across multiple parties and allowing evaluation of functions without decrypting private inputs. Bolt is also developing the zkChannels L2 protocol - a scalable and usable privacy-preserving payment infrastructure that integrates with existing payment networks, including but not limited to public blockchains. We believe zkChannels will set a new standard for secure payments in online services, giving merchants a seamless way to comply with emerging privacy regulations and delight their customers with cryptographically rigorous respect for their privacy.The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland. | $1.5M / Seed / Apr 17, 2019 | ||
| AERGO is an open platform that allows businesses to build innovative applications and services by sharing data on a trustless and distributed IT ecosystem.AERGO is an open-source based platform that features customisable hybrid-blockchain deployments, a server-less cloud architecture, and data bridging technology. AERGO’s architecture will allowenterprises to transfer data without having to trust an intermediary while also being flexibly governed and integrated into existing systems. | $30M / Venture - Series Unknown / Nov 16, 2018 | ||
| Spacemesh is a fair blockmesh operating system designed to run general-purpose smart contracts at web-scale. It is powered by a novel consensus protocol that is secure, proof of work free and highly incentive-compatible. Spacemesh is designed to create a highly-decentralized p2p blockchain computer formed by individuals from around the globerunning Spacemesh on their desktop PCs at home. Spacemesh is as a free open source software that aims to become a core Internet protocol for blockchain computation. | $15M / Series A / Sep 05, 2018 | ||
| Fluence is an open-source, public, blockchain-based decentralized database platform. It connects computing devices into the network running managed database services and generalized backends, all the while using a cryptographic token as a digital payment system. | Seed / Aug 01, 2018 | ||
| The Nervos Network is an open source public blockchain ecosystem and collection of protocols solving the biggest challenges facing blockchains today.The Nervos CKB (Common Knowledge Base) is the layer 1, proof of work public blockchain protocol of the Nervos Network. Any crypto-asset can be stored, with the security, immutability andpermissionless nature of Bitcoin, while enabling smart contracts, layer 2 scaling, and the capture of total network value through a unique crypto-economic "store of value" design and native token, the CKByte.The design of the Nervos Network is a sustainably secure, permissionless and decentralized Layer 1 blockchain that is built to scale with Layer 2 solutions, making Nervos the only PoW, multi-asset, store of value, smart contract platform. | $28M / Series A / Jul 18, 2018 | ||
| Oasis Labs is a privacy-first cloud computing platform on blockchain technology. They are building a new computing platform that enables cloud-scale, real-world applications with decentralized trust and privacy protection; in short, a privacy-first, high-performance cloud computing platform on blockchain. | $45M / Series A / Jul 09, 2018 | ||
| Spacemesh is a fair blockmesh operating system designed to run general-purpose smart contracts at web-scale. It is powered by a novel consensus protocol that is secure, proof of work free and highly incentive-compatible. Spacemesh is designed to create a highly-decentralized p2p blockchain computer formed by individuals from around the globerunning Spacemesh on their desktop PCs at home. Spacemesh is as a free open source software that aims to become a core Internet protocol for blockchain computation. | Seed / Jun 01, 2018 | ||
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FAQ
What does Dekrypt Capital invest in?
Dekrypt Capital invests primarily in Blockchain, Software and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 18 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Dekrypt Capital invest in?
Dekrypt Capital typically joins rounds of $1.5M–$3.5M at Seed and $15M–$45M at Series A. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Dekrypt Capital's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Dekrypt Capital took part in.
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Who are the partners at Dekrypt Capital?
The team at Dekrypt Capital includes Howard Wu (Managing Partner), Jack Baumruk (Managing Partner & Co-Founder) and Jon Allen (Managing Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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