Prudence is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in technology companies leading the global transformation of the built world. The firm invests across multiple verticals, including construction, real estate, infrastructure, and climate/energy adaptation. Prudence is an early investor in companies such as AI Clearing, CASAFARI, Compass (NYSE: COMP), CREXi, Evernest, Hemlane, Maxwell, Morty, Propexo, Salus, Sundae, and VendorPM. The firm is headquartered in New York City and invests globally. Learn more at www.prudence.vc.

Prudence

Future Perfect Ventures is an early-stage VC firm focused on decentralized technologies including blockchain, crypto, IoT, and AI. The company invests globally with a mission to bring economic opportunities to the underserved on every continent. Future Perfect Ventures partners with mission-driven entrepreneurs who seek to accelerate their ideas through the company's team's international network, passion for inclusive innovation, and decades of domain expertise.

Future Perfect Ventures

Virgin is a leading international investment group and one of the world's most recognised and respected brands. Conceived in 1970 by Sir Richard Branson, the Virgin Group has gone on to grow successful businesses in sectors ranging from mobile telephony, travel, financial services, leisure, music, holidays and health & wellness.  Virgin employs more than 65,000 people around the world, operating in over 50 countries. The Virgin Group is managed by [Virgin Management] (www.crunchbase.com/virginmanagement) - who support the Branson family and the growth of the Virgin brand.

Virgin Group

Wicklow Capital, Inc. is a Chicago-based principal investment firm out of the family office of Dan Tierney, co-founder and board member of GETCO, Inc., once one of the world's leading market makers and financial innovators in financial and commodities markets.

Wicklow Capital

Lightspeed Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that engages in consumer, enterprise, technology, and cleantech markets. It focuses on seed, early-stage, later-stage, expansion-stage, start-ups, growth companies, and incubation, and specializes in debt financing for start-ups and growth companies. Lightspeed Venture Partners invests in various sectors that include enterprise, consumer, big data, bitcoin, enterprise technology, cleantech, mobile, internet, financial technology, cloud solutions, e-commerce, storage, media, networking, energy, and software, software-as-a-service, information technology, biotechnology, and social. It mainly invests in countries such as the United States, Europe, Israel, China, and India.

Lightspeed Venture Partners

We back founders who are reimagining the world. We invest $1-10m early, in those building daring adventures across Europe.  Our partners have worked in leading Silicon Valley startups since the dawn of the Internet and have collectively amassed over 50 years in tech on both sides of the Atlantic. We are a small team of investors and startup operators who typically make just a small number of new investments per year, so every relationship matters. We appreciate that success is not built overnight; we are in it for the long haul. We are humble, curious, open and straightforward — having learned from both mistakes and successes. Read about our thesis-driven approach to investing and what you can expect when working with us on our website.

Mosaic Ventures

Lakestar is a venture capital firm investing in technology companies led by exceptional entrepreneurs. Early investments included Skype, Spotify, Facebook, and Airbnb. Since raising the first fund in 2013, Lakestar manages an aggregated volume of over EUR 1bn across three early-stage funds, and more recently a growth fund.  The company has expanded and broadened its portfolio and holds investments in the likes of Opendoor, Oscar, GetYourGuide, Glovo, Sender, Eigen, Five, Revolut, and Hometogo to name a few. Lakestar has a presence in Berlin, Zurich, and London. Lakestar helps companies to identify new markets and expand into them rapidly, with a focus on the US and Europe. The team advises and supports portfolio companies in business development, recruitment, technology, and marketing. The investments range from early-stage companies to those in their growth stage.

Lakestar

GV supports innovative founders moving the world forward. We invest across the life sciences, consumer, enterprise, crypto, climate, and frontier technology sectors. With Alphabet as a sole limited partner, GV operates on long time horizons and deals in decades, not rounds. Our operating partners support startups at the earliest stages of company-building across design, equity, diversity & inclusion, talent, and engineering. We also help startups interface with Google, providing unique access to the world's best technology and talent. Launched as Google Ventures in 2009, GV has over $8 billion in assets under management and 400 active portfolio companies across North America and Europe. Notable investment outcomes include Uber, Nest, Slack, GitLab, Duo Security, Flatiron Health, Verve Therapeutics, and One Medical. GV is headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area, with offices in Cambridge, New York, and London.

Google Ventures

Digital Currency Group builds and supports bitcoin and blockchain companies by leveraging insights, network, and access to capital. Based in Stamford, Connecticut, DCG has been an active seed investor in the digital currency industry with 150+ investments in over 30 countries. In addition, DCG owns and operates CoinDesk, the top media and events platform in the blockchain space, Genesis Trading, the industry's leading bitcoin brokerage firm, and Grayscale Investments, the largest digital currency asset management firm.

Digital Currency Group

Founded by Nicole Junkermann, an entrepreneur and investor who has previously raised her own significant private equity fund. NJF Capital brings a deep understanding of business strategy, entrepreneurial know-how and a wide network across business and government. They use that experience in disciplines including brand building, recruitment, admin and legal and regulatory environments, to help their portfolio companies on their growth journey.

NJF Capital

Nokota Management

DST Global is an investment firm that funds late-stage ventures in the internet industry. Its investments include some of the world’s fastest-growing and most valuable companies. DST Global has offices in Menlo Park, New York, London, Beijing, and Hong Kong. The firm was founded in 2009 by Yuri Milner, Saurabh Gupta, John Lindfors, Rahul Mehta, and Tom Stafford.

DST Global

Vy Capital is an investment firm that focuses on the internet and software industry. It was founded in 2013 by Alexander Tamas and is headquartered in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

Vy Capital

Baillie Gifford is an independently owned investment management firm. It is owned and run by 39 of its senior executives, who operate as a partnership, a structure that has endured for over a century and provides stability for clients and motivation for employees. It enables them to manage the business for the future as well as the present, with an emphasis on genuine long-term thinking rather than lurching haplessly between short-term targets.

Baillie Gifford

LG Group is a multinational conglomerate company that makes electronics, chemicals, and telecom products. The company operates worldwide through more than 30 companies in the electronics, chemical, and telecom fields. Its electronics subsidiaries manufacture and sell products ranging from electronic and digital home appliances to televisions and mobile telephones, from thin-film-transistor liquid-crystal displays to security devices and semiconductors.  LG Group also operates the Coca-Cola Korea Bottling Company, manages real estate, offers management consulting, and operates professional sports clubs. It also continues to manufacture some of these products for the South Korean market, such as laundry detergent. LG Group was founded on January 5, 1947, and is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea.

LG Group

R136 Ventures is a multi-stage venture capital firm based in Woodside, California, primarily focused on enterprise SaaS, financial technology, data & analytics, cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, workflow automation and b2b marketplaces in the United States and Israel.

R136 Ventures

Kingsway Capital is a investment management firm.

Kingsway Capital

Moore Capital Management, LLC (MCM) is an employee owned hedge fund sponsor. The firm provides its services to institutions and high net worth individuals. It invests in the public equity and fixed income markets across the globe. The firm employs a global macro-style approach to investing. Moore Capital Management was founded in 1986 and is based in New York, New York.  Moore Capital Management, ran by Louis Bacon. Moore, named after Bacon's middle name, is a $10 billion global macro set of hedge funds. The next few funds we will be covering are global macro oriented funds, which is a switch from some of the more value oriented funds we've been covering, like the 'Tiger Cub' funds including Stephen Mandel's Lone Pine Capital, Lee Ainslie's Maverick Capital, John Griffin's Blue Ridge Capital , and Andreas Halvorsen's Viking Global. Global macro funds seek to find investments in whatever market they can gain an edge, whether it be equities, bonds, currencies, debt, commodities, and more. So, keep in mind that these equity positions only represent a portion of the fund's overall holdings. They are not required to disclose holdings outside of equities, notes, and stock options.  Louis Bacon is a famed trader and risk manager. He comes from the group of ''offspring'' of the legendary Commodities Corp. Bacon emerged as one of the great macro traders alongside the likes of Paul Tudor Jones (Tudor Investment Corp), and Bruce Kovner (Caxton Associates). And, interestingly enough, Bacon helped get his firm off the ground when Paul Tudor Jones stopped accepting capital from investors and instead turned them to Bacon's firm. Returning 31% annually since inception in 1990, Bacon can be very proud of his flagship fund, Moore Global Investments, but, it doesn't stop there, as his returns have shown little correlation to the stock market and low volatility. He is the definition of a risk manager.  Bacon credits his risk management skills to the futures markets, where he learned to be sensitive to market action. And, he learned such skills at an early age. While getting his MBA at Columbia, he used his student loan money to trade. And, he lost it all. Clearly, he learned a lesson he would never forget. Such a lesson stuck with him as he worked various jobs in the financial industry before eventually starting his own firm. And, in his first year managing Moore Capital Management, he returned 86%. Bacon strives to identify long running macro trends. While he has a longer-term macroeconomic view, he won't let that stop him from making money by trading around the position in the mean time.

Moore Capital

Access Industries is a privately held industrial group with long-term holdings worldwide, that focuses on natural resources and chemicals, media and telecommunications, real estate and venture capital. Founded in 1986 by Len Blavatnik, an American entrepreneur and philanthropist, Access is an international industrial concern with strategic investments in the United States, Europe and South America. We have corporate offices in New York, London and Moscow. Our holdings include a number of market-leading companies.

Access Industries

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.

Coinbase Ventures

Freeman Capital is a tool for financial planning. One-on-one financial planning is now accessible, scalable, and cheap to anyone.

Freeman Capital

Pledge Ventures is a value-aligned venture fund, and in partnership with Founders Pledge will invest exclusively in members’ companies. Pledge Ventures operates as a rules-based fund, basing its investment decisions on specific criteria. These criteria include the requirement that the founders or leadership of the target company are members of Founders Pledge, the company is in the process of raising a minimum of $20 million in a series B or later funding round, and the participation of a ''top tier'' venture capital firm in the investment round.

Pledge Ventures

Blockchain.com

A decentralized version of the web powered by the blockchain

Web3 Ecosystem

Mina Protocol is an open-source layer-1 blockchain launched in March 2021 by ​​O(1) Labs. Mina uses recursive Zero-Knowledge Succinct Non-Interactive Arguments of Knowledge (zk-SNARKs) and advanced cryptography in its architecture, which allows the blockchain to maintain a consistent size of 22 kB regardless of the number of transactions carried out. As a result, the nodes across the blockchain are required to store only a small part of the blockchain instead of the entire database. Mina’s proof-of-stake consensus mechanism, combined with the underlying architecture, reduces the resources required to process and validate transactions, reducing the barrier to entry in order to become a validator. The platform’s native token, MINA, can be used to transact and participate in the blockchain.Mina also enables the easy programmability and implementation of zero-knowledge smart contracts (zkApps), which provide a range of benefits such as preserving user privacy, the ability to execute unlimited off-chain computations at a flat fee, and connecting Web2 websites to Web3. The blockchain also enables zkApps to be accessed by other chains and devices such as a smartphone.Key customers and partnershipsMina partnered with Celestia to integrate Celestia's modular Data Availability layer with Mina Protocol to improve the functionality and performance of zkApps built on Mina. This integration offers a programmable component within Mina's existing developer toolkit to enable higher throughput.Funding and financialsIn March 2022, Mina raised USD 92 million in an initial coin offering co-led by FTX Ventures and Three Arrows Capital. The company aimed to use fresh funds to attract developers to the Mina blockchain.

ZetaChain is an EMV-compatible layer-1 blockchain network that uses a proof-of-stake consensus mechanism. Its smart contracts are designed to support interoperability between blockchain networks, including non-smart contract chains like Bitcoin and Dogecoin. It uses threshold signature scheme (TSS) architecture for transaction signing and verification while also enabling seamless data exchange among connected chains. ZetaChain also includes an omni-chain messenger for developers to transmit data across chains via simple function calls, facilitating the launch of cross-channel dApps. The network's native token is ZETA, which is used for paying transactions, staking, and delegating.In <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/26165">January 2024</a>, Zetachain launched its mainnet after completing its testnet phase, during which it processed over 14 million cross-chain transactions.Funding and financialsIn August 2023, ZetaChain raised USD 27 million in <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/21112">equity funding</a> from a consortium of investors, including Sky9 Capital, Jane Street Capital, VistaLabs, and Kudasai. It had planned to use the funds to accelerate the development of its chain-agnostic platform.As of the same date, the company claimed that it had deployed 27,000+ dApp contracts on its platform, with more than 13 million transactions being executed on its testnet by more than 1.7 million users.

Disrupting the traditional financial system using blockchain

Decentralized Finance (DeFi)

Omega offers a blockchain infrastructure platform that enables users to earn yield through their idle Bitcoin holdings. Users will be able to use Bitcoin as collateral for lending and borrowing while earning interest by providing liquidity to asset pools. In February 2024, it announced plans to launch the public beta of its platform within the following two months.Funding and financialsIn February 2024, Omega <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/26374">raised USD 6 million </a>in new funding from Lightspeed Faction, Borderless Capital's Wormhole Cross-Chain Ecosystem Fund, Bankless Ventures, Wave Digital, and Blockchain.com, among others. The company planned to use the funds to support the launch of its platform.

Cryptocurrencies

BCB Group is a digital financial services firm based in the UK that provides a comprehensive suite of payment processing, cryptocurrency trading, and custody services to institutional clients through a unified API-enabled platform. The company offers business accounts, foreign currency exchange, and cryptocurrency liquidity for enterprises, including major cryptocurrency exchanges like Bitstamp, Coinbase, Galaxy, and Tagomi. BCB Group stands out for its proprietary API technology and integration with Corda, allowing clients to access a wide range of digital asset services seamlessly.
As of June 2023, BCB Group secured its Authorised Payment Institution (API) license from the UK Financial Conduct Authority, establishing itself as the first and only crypto-focused Authorised Payment Institution regulated by the FCA. The company is also regulated by the VQF, a self-regulatory organization recognized by FINMA in Switzerland. By the end of 2019, BCB Group had onboarded over 140 corporate clients across 32 countries, with an average monthly volume growth of 207%.
In April 2024, BCB Group obtained regulatory approval from France's ACPR and AMF to act as an Electronic Money Institution (EMI) and Digital Assets Services Provider (DASP), paving the way for the company's expansion into the European Economic Area. This move was driven by France's clear regulations for responsible innovation in fintech and digital assets, as well as its dynamic banking ecosystem.

Humanity Protocol is developing Proof of Humanity, a novel feature designed to provide developers with unique-human authentication mechanisms and give users complete ownership over their data and identity.

Omega is a Web3 infrastructure supplier that makes it possible for idle bitcoin to be collateralized for DeFi yield production.

ZetaChain is to create the most secure, simple, and cost-effective means to transmit value and information across blockchains and layers. Foresee a genuinely fluid crypto environment in which more consumers and developers may join and enjoy the benefits of crypto without friction.

Arbitrum is responsible for creating a range of solutions that offers cost-effective smart contract environments, utilizing technology deeply connected to Ethereum.

Fabric Systems is a cryptography hardware technology company.

Messari is the leading provider of market intelligence products that help professionals navigate crypto with confidence. For individuals and institutions alike, Messari combines deep analysis, data, news and powerful tools to improve industry transparency and drive smarter participation in crypto. Learn more at messari.io.

Gnosis provides digital asset storage solutions. It is a cryptocurrency EVM wallet. They create an infrastructure for a variety of decentralized applications that act as predictive tools, sources of information and standards for assets in the market.

We’re working to make money better—for everyone.  Whether it’s your paycheck, pension, or piggybank savings, money matters to us all. The ability to freely acquire and use personal resources is a vital component of human dignity and a fundamental human right. That’s why we stand for sound money without limits. Sound money is an alternative to opaque monetary policy, one that bakes transparency and fairness into its design. Money without limits means no more asking banks—with their fees, delays, and fraud risk— for permission to use your resources as you choose. We believe endowing money with these characteristics is foundational for building peaceful and prosperous societies. Our products make cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin more accessible. Individuals can buy, use, and store them securely with our digital wallet and financial services. Businesses get access to the tools they need to accept cryptocurrency payments. Developers get support building technologies that promote financial inclusivity. Everyone who visits Bitcoin.com can learn about the future of money from a trusted source.

Coinpanion makes investing in digital assets such as cryptocurrencies, NFTs, and DeFi products as easy as investing in stocks with ETFs.

Mina is building a privacy-preserving gateway between the real world and crypto — and the infrastructure for the secure, democratic future we all deserve.

BCB Group is a leading gateway to cutting edge banking solutions for the digital asset economy. We provide accounts and payments processing for the pillars of the industry including Bitstamp, Crypto.com, Fireblocks, Galaxy, Gemini, Huobi and Kraken in dozens of fiat and cryptocurrencies. Our clients can trade FX and cryptocurrencies quickly and at scale, with market-leading value. Responding to corporate and institutional demand for essential and excellent infrastructure in digital asset markets, BCB Group was created by established thought leaders in finance, regulation and technology. Founded in the UK and developed to encompass key relationships across global financial services communities, BCB Group is well positioned as one of the first multi-jurisdictional regulated cryptocurrency service firms. BCB Group’s leadership executive team have worked for Barclays, Paysafe, Bitstamp, Coinbase, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, FIS, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Investec, Lloyds Commercial Bank, Luno, Norton Rose Fulbright, FIS and Sun Life of Canada.  BCB’s mission is to connect and bank the global crypto industry.

Stader Labs is building decentralized financial protocols and applications for efficient stake management on public blockchain networks. It aims to be the distribution layer of staking while building protocols and products which enhance the security, decentralization, liquidity, governance of some of the major DPoS blockchain networks like Ethereum, Terra, Polygon, and Solana.

The Index Coop is a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) and the largest provider of on-chain structured decentralized finance (DeFi) products. We’re on a mission to make DeFi simple, secure and accessible to everyone. Index Coop builds sector index products, leverage and inverse products, and yield-generating products, all built on Set Protocol’s twice-audited V2 infrastructure.

C3 is self-custodial exchange that offers the benefits of self-custody and decentralization without sacrificing the performance and accessibility that users expect from traditional exchanges and robust trading platforms.

GRIID is a vertically-integrated bitcoin self-mining company that owns and operates a growing portfolio of bitcoin mining facilities.

Acala Network is a decentralized finance hub and stablecoin platform powering cross-blockchain liquidity and applications. It offers a suite of financial primitives: a multi-collateralized stablecoin backed by cross-chain assets such as Bitcoin, a trustless staking derivative, and a decentralized exchange to unleash liquidity to power more financial innovations.

United capital finance is a global alternative investment management firm, since its founding in 2010, this firm has operated with a long-term approach to investing, focused on diversifying and uncorrelated alpha strategies. The objective of this firm's discretionary global macro strategies is to produce a high risk-adjusted return over the long term by using a disciplined, repeatable investment process within a strong risk management framework. United believes in integrity, transparency, and alignment of interest are essential, uncompromising parts of your busses model.

Blockchain.com is a developer of a digital assets platform that offers ways to buy, hold, and use cryptocurrency. It creates a financial system for the internet that empowers anyone in the world to control their money. Over 50+ million customers have signed up to use the Blockchain.com platform. It's a fast and easy way to buy Bitcoin, trade crypto, send, receive, secure, and borrow digital currencies. The Blockchain.com explorer is one of the most trafficked websites in the world to find out what's happening in the crypto markets and the Blockchain.com exchange supports a fast trading experience.

Blockchain.com is a leading blockchain technology company that operates a popular online cryptocurrency wallet service. It enables users to conveniently buy, store, and manage various digital assets and tokens instantly through a user-friendly platform accessible via web or mobile app. The company's crypto wallet supports instant purchases using debit or credit cards, providing a seamless experience for users to participate in the cryptocurrency market.

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Humanity Protocol

Animoca Brands

Hashed

NGC Ventures

EMURGO

TRGC

LongHash Ventures

CMCC Global

Polygon

Mechanism Capital

Shima Capital

Folius Ventures

MH Ventures

Foresight Ventures

Cogitent Ventures

Veris Ventures

Cypher Capital

X Ventures

Wise3 Ventures

IDG Blockchain

Omega

Kronos Research

XBTO Group

Blockchain Founders Fund

Borderless Capital

Caladan

Wave Digital Assets

Side Door Ventures

Cadenza Ventures

Hyperithm

XBTO Humla Ventures

Wormhole

Faction

Bankless Ventures

2Shares

Psalion

Organizations and protocols that allow individuals to lend their crypto assets and take out collateralized or uncollateralized loans from to/from these projects

ZetaChain

Foundation Capital

GSR Ventures

Jane Street Capital

Sky9 Capital

Lingfeng Capital

CMT Digital

Human Capital

Krust

VistaLabs

Kudasai

verse2

Also known as layer-1 networks, these include developers of the base blockchain network.

Arbitrum

Fabric Systems

Metaplanet

Messari

BH Digital

Uncork Capital

Galaxy Venture Capital

Underscore VC

Point72 Ventures

Samsung NEXT

Morgan Creek Digital

Kraken Ventures

SK Square Americas

FTX Ventures

Page One Ventures

Gnosis

Tiger Global Management

UOB Venture

Blockchain Capital

Fenbushi Capital

ConSensys Ventures

Blockdaemon

Signum Capital

Arweave

Rockaway Blockchain Fund

Global Coin Research

FalconX

Republic capital

ParaFi Capital

Collider

Kraken

IOSG Ventures

Zee Prime Capital

Greenfield

MetaCartel Ventures

SCB 10X

Bixin Ventures

A&T Capital

Polymorphic Capital

Bitcoin.com

Digital Strategies

BoostX

KuCoin Ventures

Redwood City Ventures

Coinpanion

Ledger Capital

NYDIG

Hardlymountain

Mina

Three Arrows Capital

Brevan Howard Asset Management

Pantera Capital

Amber Group

Finality Capital Partners

Circle Ventures

To Kenz Capital

Crowd Venture Capital

BCB Group

LAUNCHub Ventures

PayU GPO

BACKED VC

Nexo

LIAN Group

North Island Ventures

tokentus investment AG

Menai Financial Group

Cowa Ventures

Profluent Ventures

Wintermute Ventures

Companies and protocols that offer infrastructure solutions for businesses to accept cryptocurrency payments for goods and services

Blockchain.com

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