Andreessen Horowitz is a venture capital firm specializing in investing in seed, start-ups, early, mid-stage, growth, and late-stage. It prefers to invest in the social media business and technology sector with a focus on software, back-end infrastructure, the infrastructure of the Internet, cloud computing, enterprise software and services, consumer, business Internet, mobile-Internet, consumer Internet, cloud computing, data storage, social network browsers data-storage, consumer electronics, networking functions, software related biology, biotech, and medicine companies at the intersection of computer science and life sciences with a focus on digital therapeutics, cloud technology in biology, and computational medicine.

Andreessen Horowitz

Redpoint has partnered with visionary founders to create new markets and redefine existing ones since 1999. The firm invests in startups across seed, early, and growth phases. In total, Redpoint manages $4 billion across multiple funds.

Redpoint

Slow Ventures is a community built on the collective experience and fueled by curiosity, Slow understands the entrepreneurial journey. Investing at the center of technology and on the edges of science, society, and culture, Slow gives founders the resources, connections, experiences, and empathy required to build strong, sustainable companies.

Slow Ventures

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

Alumni Ventures Group provides high-quality, diversified venture portfolios to individual investors who previously haven't had access to VC. It helps accredited alums from top entrepreneurial schools invest together in the ventures of fellow alums. The firm backs companies with an alumni connection and an institutional lead investor with expertise in the space. AVG also offers focused funds that allow any accredited investor access to a venture portfolio, diversified by type, sector, stage, and geography. Beth Obermiller, Michael Madden, and Mike Collins co-founded the firm in Manchester, New Hampshire in 2013.

Alumni Ventures

Samsung NEXT Ventures is an investment arm of Samsung NEXT, a multifaceted innovation group within Samsung Electronics dedicated to identifying new growth opportunities that will define the next decade. The firm prefers to invest in artificial intelligence, fintech, blockchain, health technology, infrastructure, and media technology sectors.

Samsung NEXT

NFX operates as a pre-seed & seed stage investor that is transforming how true innovators are funded for entrepreneurs. They believe that creating something of true significance starts with seeing things others do not. As Founders, they reinvented industries with this mindset. As investors, their approach is no different. They do this by asking ourselves one question - ideally, how should the startup experience work for Founders, both NFX and the whole ecosystem. NFX lens is always through the eyes of the Founder. The firm approach is to first build an early-stage experience for all Founders that is powered by more software. Second, to bring the founders they back exponential yet little-known techniques for network effects and growth. Third, to make visible the typically seen methods of technology's most impactful companies. Having built 10 companies with more than $10 billion in exits across multiple industries and geographies, they're entrepreneurs first because they're entrepreneurs first. And they are determined to guard the backs of the next generation of fearless founders.

Electric Capital is a crypto asset management firm. The company invests in tokens that are Programmable Money and invest in both liquid and illiquid tokens that are emerging stores of value and rooted in novel technology. Electric Capital is started by technology entrepreneurs, engineers, and successful investors. Prior to Electric Capital, they started six companies (five acquired), invested in 100+ technology startups with a cumulative market cap in the tens of billions, and served as executives at technology companies such as Facebook, Google, and Twitter. They have been investing personally in cryptocurrencies since 2013 and were early believers in Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Monero. Prior to Electric

Electric Capital

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

Standard Crypto is a venture capital firm that combines deep technical expertise, elite company-building experience, and a decade-long track record in crypto to partner early with decentralized protocols and blockchain-focused companies.  Investments listed are not representative of all Standard Crypto investments and are not to be considered a complete list of all investments made by Standard Crypto.

Standard Crypto

Scribble Ventures is an early-stage investment fund that focuses on Pre-Seed through Series A.

Scribble Ventures

FTX Ventures invests in equity and/or tokens, at any check size and stage of blockchain. It leverages resources across FTX and the ecosystem of global partners. It supports founders and wants the team to retain flexibility and decision-making, not to get in their way.

FTX Ventures

Franklin Resources is a global investment management organization known as Franklin Templeton Investments. They have an extensive global presence, including offices in 35 countries and clients in more than 150. Their common stock is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol BEN and is included in the Standard & Poor’s 500:registered: Index. Franklin Resources Inc. NYSE: BEN is an investment firm originally founded in New York in 1947 as Franklin Distributors, Inc. It is listed on the NYSE under the ticker BEN as in Benjamin Franklin, whom founder Rupert Johnson, Sr. admired. In 1973 the headquarters moved from New York to San Mateo, California. The firm specializes in conservatively managed mutual funds. It offers products under the Franklin, Templeton, Mutual Series and Fiduciary brand names. Like other large investment companies, the firm offers a wide variety of funds but is traditionally best known for bond funds under the Franklin brand, international funds under the Templeton brand, and value funds under the Mutual Series brand.

Franklin Templeton

NCSOFT is an online, video, and mobile game development company that develops massively multiplayer games. It offers games such as Aion, which is supported by prominent titles such as City of Heroes and Guild Wars. NCsoft also produces casual online games such as shooter Point Blank and strategy game Murim Jekook.  NCSOFT Corporation was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Seongnam, South Korea. The company has subsidiaries around the world, including game studios in the United States.

NCSOFT

Apollo is a global alternative investment management firm that focuses on private equity, credit-oriented capital markets, and real estate investments.

Apollo

Circle Ventures is a venture capital firm based in New York, New York. The company prefers to invest in the field of technology.

Circle Ventures

Dentsu Ventures is the corporate venture capital fund of Dentsu. It specializes in seed, early, mid and later-stage investments. It prefers to invest in the marketing and communication business sectors in the United States of America, Europe, and Asia.

Dentsu Ventures

‍Greenoaks makes concentrated, long-term investments in generational teams building enduring companies. The firm invests behind exceptional leaders early in their journeys, building partnerships that endure for decades.

Greenoaks

O'Leary Ventures is a private company owned by Kevin O'Leary. They actively look at startup businesses, and they're looking to build the next great O'Leary company.

O'Leary Ventures

A16z crypto is a $300M venture fund that will invest in crypto companies and protocols. The company's fund is designed to include features of traditional venture capital, updated to the modern crypto world.

a16z crypto

9Yards Capital provides entrepreneurs with long-term, strategic capital and have a deep understanding of how governments and regulators operate. They take a focused approach to the industries they invest in and have a proven track record in financial services and logistics investing.

9Yards Capital

Ryze Labs

As an Independent Advisory solution, Ethos is a fiduciary partner for an exclusive group of clients, providing: Superior service empowered by client concentration. Customization empowered by authentic objectivity. Creativity empowered by the flexibility to seek unique solutions. Portfolio and risk management insights empowered by a seasoned institutional investment team

Ethos Family Office

Binance Labs identifies, invests, and empowers viable blockchain entrepreneurs, startups, and communities, providing financing to industry projects that help grow the larger blockchain ecosystem.

Binance Labs

Jump Crypto is building a cryptocurrency infrastructure to help the blockchain and all things Web3 grow. It was founded in 2015 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.

Jump Crypto

Protofund is an early-stage venture fund founded by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs. We invest in passionate teams building blockchain/web3 and consumer products.

Protofund

Karatage

Mysten Labs

A foundational component to the next generation of digital entertainment.

Esports

Gameplay Galaxy claims to be the first web3-based and decentralized competitive gaming platform. It was developed by the creators of the leading web2 gaming series “Trial Xtreme.” The platform was to initially support “Trial Xtreme,” allowing users to earn in-game assets (including NFTs) by competing in its bike racing games. Along with this, players could also earn income by hosting tournaments and events. The company’s last funding round in September 2022 saw it raise USD 12.8 million in seed funding led by Blockchain Capital. The fresh funds were allocated to build new games and features for the platform, develop its wallet offering, onboard web2 users, and expand its development team.

Disrupting the traditional financial system using blockchain

Decentralized Finance (DeFi)

Elixir is a DeFi liquidity provisioning platform that lets users earn market-maker rewards for providing liquidity across decentralized order books and centralized exchanges. Exchanges can also provision liquidity for token pairs by integrating Elixir’s algorithmic market-making into their infrastructure. Notably, the protocol is compatible with a number of API-based central limit order books and includes over 20 back-end integrations to decentralized exchanges like dydx, SudoSwap, and Perennial Finance.Elixir uses a proof-of-stake (PoS) consensus mechanism and offers staking rewards to validators in the form of its native token (named EXLR). As of October 2023, the company provided market-making services to over 50 dApps. Furthermore, it announced plans to launch its mainnet and integrate with more exchanges such as Vertex, dYdX, and Hyperliquid in March 2024.Funding and financialsIn March 2024, Elixir raised USD 8 million in Series B funding led by Mysten Labs and Maelstrom at a valuation of USD 800 million.

A decentralized version of the web powered by the blockchain

Web3 Ecosystem

Ethos is a blockchain game developer and Web3 wallet provider that operates on top of Sui, a layer-1 proof-of-stake blockchain. The Ethos Wallet–its flagship product available as a browser extension on Chrome–allows users to trade and store cryptocurrencies and other digital assets as well as explore and access dApps on the Sui network. In addition, users can pre-approve batch transactions through its wallet.Furthermore, the company develops fully on-chain games that incorporate NFTs. Its games include checkers, chess, and a puzzle called Sui 8192, accessible through the Ethos wallet. According to the company, Sui 8192 is one of the most popular dApps on the Sui blockchain, with an average of 100,000 transactions per day as of January 2023.Funding and financialsEthos raised <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/15967">USD 4.2 million in seed funding </a>in January 2023, led by Boldstart Ventures and gumi Cryptos Capital (gCC). It planned to utilize the fresh funds for recruitment and the on-going development of its wallet, developer infrastructure, and other dApps.

Switchboard allows builders to unlock the power of solana by creating high-performance data feeds from any API. They will bring data on-chain that will enable developers to unlock the future of decentralized applications. They enable the SOL community to push any form of data on-chain.

The SCION Internet architecture developed at ETH Zurich is a disruptive technology that provides secure inter-domain routing, QoS, DDoS defense mechanisms, resilient public-key infrastructures, and an unprecedented level of availability. We leverage the SCION architecture to offer next-generation Internet services and address the flaws and limitations of today’s Internet.

Playtron provideslightweight gaming OS optimized for a new generation of powerful handheld gaming PCs.

Elixir is a decentralized protocol that enables full composability for integrations by providing computationally secure, algorithmic market-making across CEXs and DEXs.

Scallop is the pioneering Next Generation peer-to-peer Web3 Decentralized Finance lending Money Market.

NAVI is the first Native One-Stop Liquidity Protocol on Sui. It enables users to participate as liquidity providers or borrowers within the Sui Ecosystem.

Metagame Industries focus on creating value for gamers, including spiritual, entertainment, and potential financial value through AAA-level gameplay and replayability.

Aether Games are the creative talent behind both of the widely expected NFT-based game titles: Gates of Ethernity and Cards of Ethernity. In addition, the studio's creative efforts are up to be represented by the CGI mini-series ''Aether'' and many more.

MovEX focuses on the field of blockchain financial services and is committed to providing users with decentralized trading services.

Ethos is a react library. They ship with hooks to interact with the wallet and blockchain. They provide a variety of utility functions that one might find useful while developing. They use it to assemble the basic building blocks for a dApp experience.

Langtrace AI is an open source and open telemetry based LLM application observability and evaluations platform. Langtrace AI supports tracing for more than 30 integrations that includes popular LLM providers, VectorDBs and frameworks.

Peeranha is a knowledge sharing protocol for Web3 that streamlines knowledge management & discovery in Web3, creates incentives for users to contribute, gives ownership of the knowledge back to the community and preserves it by storing on Polygon blockchain and Filecoin.

We are on a mission to empower creators and their communities

Gameplay Galaxy is building the first Web3 competitive games decentralized ecosystem.

Dust Labs is building software that helps NFT communities bring more value to their holders.

Panzerdogs is a Solana NFT gaming project in which players can own and use all of their in-game assets in P2E and P2P battles. The game is designed to be played in mobile and desktop browsers.

WAGMI Ltd. operates as a game development studio.

Mysten Labs develops tools that make web3 secure and ready for mass adoption. They create foundational infrastructure to accelerate the adoption of web3.

Mysten Labs, formed by four former executives of Meta’s Novi Research team and lead architects of the defunct Diem blockchain, is a developer of infrastructure and tools to accelerate Web3 adoption. Its products include Move, a programming language for building smart contracts, and Sui, a layer-1 blockchain.

MemeFi Launches Pre-Market on OKX amid Price Drop, Partners with Mysten Labs

Switchboard

RockawayX

Tribe Capital

StarkWare Industries

Ascensive Assets

Arche Fund

Solana Foundation

Aptos

Breed VC

SUBZERO+

Anapaya

SIX FinTech Ventures

Cape Capital AG

Google Cloud

To advance dApp development, Sui, a layer-1 blockchain developed by Mysten Labs and the Sui Foundation, has partnered with Google Cloud.

Platforms that provide tools such as SDKs, blockchain node infrastructure, and bridges for developers to create, host, debug, and add extra functionality to dApps on one or many blockchains.

Pieminister

Pushing the envelope in MedTech with emerging technologies

Next-gen Medical Devices

Providers of software that helps manage risks, ensure quality, and streamline audit processes during medical device development

Sui Foundation

Sui and BytePlus partner to explore AI and Web3 gaming opportunities

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

Playtron

Polychain

CMT Digital

Factor Capital

Elixir

Maelstrom

GSR Ventures

Amber Group

Manifold

Flowdesk

Long Tail Ventures

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

Scallop

CMS Holdings

6th Man Ventures

UOB Venture

KuCoin

Signum Capital

AC Capital

Blockchain Founders Fund

Side Door Ventures

Kyros Ventures

8186 Capital

ViaBTC Capital

Criterion VC

DWF Labs

Zellic

7updao

Cypher Capital

LBANK Labs

Oak Grove Ventures

Cetus

280 Capital

NAVI Protocol

dao5

Hashed

OKX Ventures

Maverick Ventures Israel

Gate.io

Assembly Capital Partners

Mechanism Capital

BENQI Finance

GeekCartel

Nomad Capital

Comma3 Ventures

Hailstone Labs

Red Bull

The Sui network, backed by Mysten Labs, has announced a multiyear partnership with the Red Bull Formula One Racing team. Sui will be the official blockchain partner of the racing team to provide immersive digital experiences for fans

Metagame Industries

Militia Hill Ventures

DWeb3 Capital

Big Brain Holdings

2Moon Capital

ChainHill Capital

Game Mine Alliance

ZeroX Fund

Aether Games

Eclipse Ventures

EMURGO

ULTRA

Polygon

Polkastarter

MV Global

Almora Capital

Magic Eden

Cogitent Ventures

MOVEX

Ethos

boldstart ventures

gumi Cryptos Capital (gCC)

Charge Ventures

Matrixport

Alliance DAO

Builder Capital

Primal Capital

Founderheads,

Providers of wallets that allow users to purchase and store the cryptocurrencies/tokens required to interact with web3 apps, along with app browsers for users to browse and access dApps.

Mysten Labs

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