Akuna Capital is a proprietary trading firm specializing in derivatives market-making and sophisticated modeling with a commitment to cutting-edge technology.

Akuna Capital

Devonshire Investors is the private investment arm of FMR LLC, the parent company of Fidelity Investments.

Devonshire Investors

Morgan Creek Capital Management, LLC is an SEC-registered investment adviser providing investment management services to institutions and wealthy families. They provide a customized investment solution to clients in need of a targeted investment program, as well as discretionary strategies to assist clients in building investment programs based on the University Endowment Model. They provide asset allocation, manager selection, and portfolio construction. Morgan Creek was founded in July 2004 by Mark W. Yusko, former Chief Investment Officer of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (''UNC'') Endowment. The core of the Morgan Creek investment team has worked together in a fiduciary capacity for many years managing one of the most complex endowment management programs in the country. Mr. Yusko and Managing Director Mike Hennessy were responsible for building the Investment Office and subsequent Management Company operations for the UNC Endowment, and they worked closely with the Investment Fund Board to develop investment policy, set goals and objectives, establish a strategic framework, select investment managers and manage portfolio risk.

Morgan Creek Capital Management

Recruit Strategic Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in innovative startups from all around the world. It is a corporate venture capital arm of Recruit Holdings that seeks to invest in education and financial technology, digital healthcare, and infrastructure sectors. It was established in 2008 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Recruit Strategic Partners

CMT Digital is a venture capital firm engaging in the crypto asset and Blockchain technology industry. The firm focuses on asset trading, blockchain technology investments, and legal and policy. It was founded in 2017 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.

CMT Digital

Galaxy Digital operates as a technology-driven financial services and investment management firm that provides institutions and direct clients with a full suite of financial solutions spanning the digital assets ecosystem. Galaxy Digital operates five synergistic business lines: Trading, Asset Management, Principal Investments, Investment Banking, and Mining.

Galaxy Digital

Susquehanna Government Products

PJC is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on investing in, supporting, and building relationships with entrepreneurs who are creating the future. The firm has invested in over 100 companies across North America including notable companies like Expensify, Nest, BlockFi, GetWell Network and Nexamp. PJC was founded in 2001 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

Founded in 2015 by Ethereum co-founder Joseph Lubin, MESH has four core components: investment, incubation, research & development, and acceleration. We identify bold founders and innovative technologies that can help bring the future of Web 3.0 into high definition. We channel ambitions, accelerate the path to breakthroughs, and create value. Now investing through TachyonX.

ConSensys Ventures

Founded in 2015 by Ethereum co-founder Joseph Lubin, MESH has four core components: investment, incubation, research & development, and acceleration. We identify bold founders and innovative technologies that can help bring the future of Web 3.0 into high definition. We channel ambitions, accelerate the path to breakthroughs, and create value.  Now investing through TachyonX.

ConsenSys Mesh

SoFi is a finance company that offers a range of lending and wealth management services. The company primarily caters to early-stage professionals and offers variable and fixed rate parent, personal, and MBA loans, mortgage refinancing, and more. They create modern financial products and services that help people borrow, save, spend, invest, and protect their money better so that they can achieve financial independence and realize their ambitions from owning a home to saving for retirement, paying off their student loans, and more. It was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

SoFi

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

Kenetic is a proprietary trading and VC investment firm focused on digital assets and blockchain related companies. They have developed technology to facilitate their quantitative trading strategies and offer various digital asset related structured products to counterparts.

Kenetic

Lumenary is a New York-based digital product agency transforming complex challenges into elegantly simple solutions. Since our founding, they've helped leading startups and established brands alike shape their vision, expand their market presence, scale their products, and achieve their strategic objectives. They hold their results to a higher standard, driven by our desire to deliver an unparalleled level of service and an uncompromising commitment to success.

Lumenary

Investor in Early Stage FinTech Companies

Fort Schuyler Ventures

Since 2018, the Cadenza team has managed investment vehicles with a focus on decentralized technologies.

Cadenza Ventures

Purple Arch Ventures is a community of accredited Northwestern alums who pool money into a VC fund to invest

Purple Arch Ventures

Valar Ventures is a venture capital firm backed by Peter Thiel. Valar partners with entrepreneurs globally and believes that an increasing number of transformative technology companies will be started outside of Silicon Valley, and that the founders of those companies will benefit from having a partner that understands their unique challenges and opportunities.

Valar Ventures

Susquehanna is a regional financial services holding company with assets of approximately $14 billion. It includes a commercial bank that provides financial services at more than 230 branch locations in the Mid-Atlantic region. Through Susquehanna Wealth Management, the company offers investment, fiduciary, brokerage, insurance, retirement planning and private banking services. Susquehanna also operates an insurance and employee benefits company, a commercial finance company, and a vehicle leasing company. Their extensive portfolio of financial products and services is managed locally to provide maximum value to their customers and communities. They invite you to get to know us better through the information and links provided.

Susquehanna

Winklevoss Capital Management partners with a select number of early stage companies to provide investment with a full service approach to driving growth.

Winklevoss Capital

Morgan Creek Digital is a hedge fund backed by Morgan Creek Capital. Morgan Creek Digital specializes in the fields of digital asset management, financial services, and venture capital. It was founded in 2004 and headquartered in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Morgan Creek Digital

Avon Ventures

Arrington XRP Capital is a digital asset management firm in blockchain-based capital markets. The company was founded in 2017.

Arrington XRP Capital

They are a venture capital firm focused exclusively on public blockchains. They invest in infrastructure and application companies that will enable these transformative protocols to power services for the next billion users.

Castle Island Ventures

Hashkey they offers investment opportunities and solutions to institutions, family offices, funds, and professional accredited investors across the digital asset and blockchain ecosystem.

Hashkey Exchange

BossaNova is the number one Brazilian Micro Venture Capital. We are the most active investor in the pre-seed stage in Latin America with more than 1200 investments in over 1000 Startups. We also invest in global companies, directly or through co-investment syndicates on AngelList.

Bossanova Investimentos

SCB 10X is a subsidiary of Siam Commercial Bank (SCB) with the mission to create long-term value through investing in exponential technologies, championing passionate entrepreneurs, empowering the long tail underserved, and building successful partnerships. Since its launch, the fund has deployed capital worldwide to expand our know-how in forefront technologies ranging from big data analytics, blockchain, machine learning, location positioning to quantum computing.

SCB 10X

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

Bain Capital Ventures invests in seed to growth-stage startups that are using tech to disrupt existing markets or create entirely new ones.  The firm invests from seed to growth in enterprise software, infrastructure software, and industries being transformed by data.  Bain Capital Ventures has helped launch and commercialize 200-plus companies since 2000, including investments in DocuSign, Jet.com, Kiva Systems, LinkedIn, Rapid7, SurveyMonkey, Taleo, and TellApart. Bain Capital Ventures has more than $5.2 billion of assets under management with offices in San Francisco, New York, and Boston.

Bain Capital Ventures

DST Global is an investment firm that focuses on late-stage ventures in the Internet sector. The firm has invested in several rapidly growing companies. Its offices are 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

Founded in 2001, Tiger Global Management, LLC (“Tiger Global”) is a New York-based investment firm pursuing a long-term approach to investing in leading, global public and private companies that leverage technological innovation. Tiger Global’s public equity business includes fundamentally oriented long/short, long-focused and crossover strategies, targeting investments in high-quality, public growth companies. The private equity business invests in early through late stage companies that pursue innovative approaches to new and existing industries, building on over 20 years of experience investing in hundreds of businesses in more than 30 countries with more than 90 portfolio company IPOs. With a strong track record investing across sectors and stages, Tiger Global aims to be a thought partner to companies and their management teams across their lifecycle in public and private markets. The Firm’s mission is to generate world-class returns for its investors and to do so in a way that makes its employees, partners and portfolio companies proud.

Tiger Global Management

Bracket Capital is an alpha-driven global investment manager focused on high-growth, later-stage, technology-enabled companies. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in West Hollywood, California.

Bracket Capital

Pomp Investments

Breyer Capital is a premier global venture capital and private equity investor focused on catalyzing high-impact entrepreneurs in the United States and China. Founded by Jim Breyer in 2006, Breyer Capital makes long-term, idea-driven strategic investments in its chosen core areas: social media, entertainment/media, digital health, and financial technologies.  Breyer Capital actively partners with a diverse set of companies including early-stage startups building breakthrough technologies, fast growing companies, and established worldwide leading corporations. Its team enjoys helping to frame strategic investments anchored by the passion of founders and owner/operator teams, the insights of its network of world-class investors, and a conviction that artificial intelligence, machine learning, and virtual reality will transform technology and investment opportunities globally.

Breyer Capital

Valor is an investment firm that focuses on cross-border financial and investment opportunities. The firm operates across two investment strategies Growth Equity and Venture Capital. It was founded in 2011 and headquartered in New York, United States.

Valor Capital Group

Hudson River Trading operates as a multi-asset class quantitative trading firm. Hudson River Trading consists of mathematicians, computer scientists and engineers that research and develop automated trading algorithms.

Hudson River Trading

Jump Capital is a thesis-led, sector-focused, and operating-centric venture capital firm specializing in Seed/Series A. Jump invests in data-driven technology companies within the FinTech, B2B SaaS, IT/Data Infrastructure, and Media sectors. With offices in Chicago and New York, Jump provides advocacy and support through a platform of institutional-level resources for entrepreneurs.  Jump's philosophy is to align with talented management teams that desire a trusted partner with real-world operating experience and a firm with an operating platform targeting initial investment checks between $2M to $10M.

Jump Capital

Third Prime is a leading New York and Nashville based early-stage venture capital firm, with over $500mm assets under management.

Third Prime

Gaingels is a venture investment syndicate in service of the LGBT+ community and its allies, investing in companies with LGBT+ founders and C-suite leaders at all stages of growth, as well as in more established companies resolved on building more inclusive teams, with a global portfolio of 130+ companies and $70M in deployed investment capital to date.  The Gaingels network also actively supports its portfolio in identifying and recruiting diverse talent to their C-suite and board leadership teams and fosters a vibrant global community of industry leaders, investors, operators, and entrepreneurs who share a common goal for positive social change through business and successful investments.

Gaingels

Pacific Century Group

Paradigm is a research-driven crypto investment firm that funds companies and protocols from their earliest stages, often when there’s no more than an idea. We were founded in 2018 by Matt Huang and Fred Ehrsam on the belief that crypto is driving one of the most important technical and economic shifts of our time, as money, a financial system, and a new internet platform. We’re builders, not just investors. Many of us have worked on tools, protocols, and companies that are now some of the most used in crypto. We build software, much of it open source, that aims to advance the frontier of crypto for everyone. Research is at the core of everything we do. We believe depth is a prerequisite for invention, and that real progress happens at the frontier, not in the boardroom or the ivory tower. We are as likely to collaborate on a research paper or ship code as we are to advise on product or business strategy. If you’re building something ambitious at the frontier, come build with us.

Paradigm

We are ParaFi, an alternative asset management and technology firm that operates liquid and venture strategies focused on the digital asset ecosystem. Founded in 2018, ParaFi was among the earliest institutional investors in the blockchain industry and has evolved into a trusted partner by leading institutions globally.

ParaFi Capital

TVC is a transformational, early-stage venture firm backed by world class entrepreneurs and business leaders. Led by a seasoned team of venture investors, ex-founders, and investment management executives, we invest our capital, time, and network into highly defensible, fast-growing companies with the potential to solve the world’s largest problems. Our strategy is grounded on writing high conviction checks at Pre-Seed and Seed with healthy follow-on reserves through Series A; demonstrating deep value to enable increased ownership over time. Our experienced team is headquartered in New York City and London, but we are excited to meet founders from around the world with a strong preference for diverse founding teams. At its core, we believe that diversity is not only good for business, but great for financial returns.

The Venture Collective

CMS is a principal investment company that focuses on investing in the crypto-asset ecosystem. The firm plans to invest in both liquid and illiquid crypto tokens, as well as equity interests in select businesses.

CMS Holdings

Bill Silva Ventures (BSV) is the investment firm associated with Bill Silva Entertainment. Bill Silva Ventures invests in startups at pre-seed and seed stage and as an LP in venture capital funds. BSV’s investment thesis is built upon Bill Silva’s success in the music industry where he finds artists and cultural movements early which he applies to venture founders. Bill is committed to learning from and nurturing the brightest minds who see the future differently. Currently BSV’s global portfolio consists of 60+ seed startup investments and 15 venture fund investments with sector exposure including music, entertainment, metaverse, consumer, healthtech and fintech. With a global outlook, BSV has geographical centers of expertise in Los Angeles, New York, London and Lisbon. Notably, BSV is an LP in Techstars Music where Bill is a partner and mentor and an investor in Creative Futures Collective, rebalancing social capital access to the creative industries for diverse talent, a personal cause he cares about.

Bill Silva Ventures

Based in Boston, MA, Rose Park Advisors is a specialized investment firm, co-founded by Clayton and Matthew Christensen, focused on making investments in companies whose strategies are based on harnessing the benefits of Disruptive Innovation. Rose Park invests in disruptive opportunities across industries, geographies, and company stage and size, providing capital and expertise to help companies achieve disruptive success.

Rose Park Advisors

Castor Ventures is an investment firm. Castor Ventures invests in a broad range of venture-backed companies to build diversified venture portfolios invested alongside established venture firms.

Castor Ventures

Definitive Capital invest in crypto projects shaping the future of finance.

Definitive Capital

What is Investlink Holdings? An investment management company with many years of experience in the financial markets. Why Investlink Holdings? 8 years on the asset management market 150+ satisfied investors We face risk without fear, because we know how to control and predict it! We do not rely on luck, but on cold calculation. Our offers: IPO | Investing in IPOs on NYSE and NASDAQ, following the Book IPO, Market IPO strategies, without missing out on minimizing risks by hedging strategy. ETF | Opportunity to effectively invest in the most innovative sectors, significantly outperforming the broad S&P 500 ($ SPY) market over the long term. Pre-IPO | Investing in technology stocks and high-growth companies around the world that are not yet listed on public markets, but which are similar in characteristics to public companies. Pro-IPO | Online service for evaluating and analyzing IPO

Investlink Holdings

Empede Capital is a Venture Capital investor with a clear focus on innovation & industry disruption

Empede Capital

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Platforms, apps, and cards to keep the corporate wallet in check

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 Jeeves, a Y Combinator graduate, offers prepaid and credit business expense cards for enterprises and mainly targets cross-border payments and global workforces (covering local card issuing in 22 countries as of July 2023). It aims to replace the need for different cards across several countries by offering cards that can handle multiple currencies and offering an infrastructure compatible across the globe. Jeeves also provides insights to its users, enabling them to better track and manage their expenses.
 
 
 
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 Besides its expense management solutions, the company offers financing solutions for businesses through a proprietary banking-as-a-service (BaaS) infrastructure. Jeeves provides underwriting, 30-day credit (to be repaid in respective local currencies and avoid FX fees), and non-card payment rails. The company also plans to branch out to additional expense and financial management verticals, including B2B payments, working capital loans, and revenue-based financing.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
 
 
 
 The company emerged from stealth in June 2021 and has offices in Mexico, the UK, Canada, and Brazil. As of July 2023, its workforce amounted to around 180 employees.&nbsp;
 
 
 
 
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 As of October 2022, the company had over 4,000 enterprise clients (more than double its base in September 2021), across 25 countries in North America, Latin America, and Europe. Its customers comprise startups, SMEs, and ecommerce companies, including Bitso, Kavak, and Belvo. In July 2023, the company noted that around 60% of its revenue is generated from Colombia, Mexico, and Brazil.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
 
 
 
 
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 The company has reportedly seen strong growth with revenue rising 250% YoY in 2022 and ARR reaching USD 40 million. Meanwhile, its annualized gross transaction volume amounted to USD 1.3 billion as of March 2022.
 
 
 
 
 Jeeves has raised equity through several funding rounds in quick succession (three rounds between June 2021 and March 2022) with the most recent being a USD 180 million Series C round in March 2022 (led by Tencent). The funding round valued the company at USD 2.1 billion, around 4x its September 2021 valuation (USD 500 million). Jeeves expects to invest the funds in widening its global reach (to over 40 countries by 2025), covering more currencies, and expanding its workforce.&nbsp; 
 
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Yellow Card is a pan-African fintech company operating across 20 countries in Africa. It is the largest and only licensed stablecoin on-ramp/off-ramp platform on the African continent. Yellow Card provides individuals and businesses of all sizes with secure and cost-effective methods to buy and sell various stablecoins such as USDC, USDT, and PYUSD via their local currency. This can be done directly through the Yellow Card platform or via their Payments API.
As of February 2024, Yellow Card users can send USDC on the Stellar network, leveraging the network's low transaction fees and lightning-fast transaction speeds. The integration with Stellar's blockchain enables near-zero transaction costs, swift settlement in as little as three seconds, and positions Yellow Card as a facilitator for fintechs and exchanges to harness these benefits across various use cases like remittances and real-time payments.
In October 2022, Yellow Card obtained a virtual asset service provider (VASP) license from Botswana's Non-Bank Financial Institution Regulatory Authority, making it the first crypto exchange in Africa to secure such a license issued by an African country. This regulatory approval allows Yellow Card customers in Botswana to buy and sell Bitcoin, Ether, and Tether with the local fiat currency, the Botswana pula.
Furthermore, in November 2023, Yellow Card became the first fintech in Africa to launch PayPal USD (PYUSD), a USD-backed stablecoin issued by Paxos. This collaboration opened up new global trading opportunities and access for African customers, enabling seamless buy, sell, and transfer of PYUSD.
As of 2024, Yellow Card has facilitated over USD 2 billion in transactions across Africa and raised over USD 50 million from leading global investors such as Polychain Capital, Valar Ventures, Third Prime Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, and Block (formerly Square/Cash App).

Providing AI-driven market intelligence and workflow automation to give firms an edge

Capital Markets Tech

UK-based Elwood Technologies provides an institutional cryptocurrency trading platform and portfolio management system for traditional financial institutions such as banks, hedge funds, and asset managers. The platform combines Elwood's institutional cryptocurrency trading capabilities with data, analytics, and workflow tools, enabling clients to capture and manage their crypto investments alongside the rest of their portfolio. Elwood's technology integrates with existing trading software used by financial institutions, providing secure exposure to crypto assets with a broad range of reporting and analytics tools.&nbsp;In January 2024, Elwood Technologies received approval as a service company from the UK's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), covering security tokens and derivatives.&nbsp;Key customers and partnershipsIn February 2022, Elwood partnered with Bloomberg to integrate its platform with Bloomberg's buy-side order management system (OMS), enabling investors to order and trade crypto assets through Bloomberg's platform. This integration aimed to simplify institutional access to cryptocurrency markets.&nbsp;In April 2023, Elwood Technologies announced the integration of Fireblocks, a digital asset custody and transfer service, into its platform. This integration enabled Elwood clients to view their movements and balances on Fireblocks directly from Elwood's portfolio management system, enhancing transparency for institutional investors.

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Web3 Ecosystem

Blockdaemon is a blockchain infrastructure company providing node management services. It offers node-as-a-service for developers to connect to several blockchain networks through its Ubiquity API without requiring them to own and manage nodes in-house. The company also provides access to native blockchain APIs, which allows developers to explore a network in detail, along with node infrastructure for blockchain networks and validators to stake and scale operations. Blockdaemon supports more than 40 blockchain networks globally through cloud and bare metal servers.The company also provides RPC archival nodes for zkSync, a layer-2 scaling solution for Ethereum. These nodes are designed to improve the stability, security, and resilience of the zkSync network by providing better infrastructure services.In July 2022, Blockdaemon acquired Sepior, a data and digital asset security company focused on institutional-grade cryptographic key management and protection services, for an undisclosed sum. Through the acquisition, Blockdaemon aimed to improve its staking services by providing institutional customers the option of custodial and non-custodial wallet solutions for digital assets.Funding and financialsIn January 2022, Blockdaemon raised USD 207 million in Series C funding co-led by Sapphire and Tiger Global at a post-money valuation of USD 3.25 billion. It aimed to use the new capital to complete its node-stack product suite and for strategic acquisitions. The company had also planned to use the funds to launch its own DeFi fund to make structured investments in the crypto and blockchain ecosystem.

HealthBridgeHQ is a med tech company supporting Providers and Patients in improving practice outcomes and patient outcomes.

Supermojo is building the embedded customer lending experiences to power the growth of NFTs as a powerful new asset class.

Elwood Technologies is a global fintech company that provides institutional-grade access to digital asset markets and liquidity venues. It is a platform that builds institutional-grade digital assets trading infrastructure and provides low-latency connectivity to global crypto exchanges and deep liquidity via one single API. The company provides market infrastructure at scale, allowing financial institutions, neobanks, and corporations to access the digital assets market quickly and efficiently.

GamerGains Labs is the first-ever token and cryptocurrency-based play and earn platform serving traditional gamers – a community of hundreds of millions of people around the world that enjoy playing on PCs and consoles such as Xbox and PlayStation. Offering an easy-to-use interface, the innovative platform will allow members to earn crypto with confidence through an automated contest lifecycle, which is impartial, transparent, and features instant payout settlement.

Coin Metrics is the provider of crypto financial intelligence, providing network data, market data, indexes, and network risk solutions to the most prestigious institutions touching crypto-assets. Coin Metrics is an open-source project to determine the economic significance of public blockchains. Today, we expand on that original purpose to empower people and institutions to make informed crypto-financial decisions.

Hex Trust is a fully-licensed and insured provider of bank-grade custody for digital assets. Through our proprietary platform Hex Safe™, we deliver custody, DeFi, brokerage, and financing solutions for financial institutions, digital asset organizations, corporate and private clients. Hex Trust has offices in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Vietnam and is expanding across Europe and the Middle East. Our mission is to provide the infrastructure that enables banks and financial institutions to adopt and integrate digital assets into their business models within a highly secure, scalable and compliant custody framework.   Hex Trust is registered as a Trust Company under the Hong Kong Trust Ordinance and holds a Trust or Company Service Provider (TCSP) license under the Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorist Financing Ordinance. In Singapore, Hex Trust holds a Capital Markets Services (CMS) license from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) allowing the company to provide custodial services regulated under Singapore’s Securities and Futures Act.

Notabene helps financial companies comply with new, global regulations for crypto transactions.  We are the first platform that provides full compliance with the Travel Rule. Our current offering consists of a unified API and dashboard helping compliance officers within crypto businesses manage risk for both Travel Rule and non-custodial transactions. We provide our customers with access to the widest reach of crypto businesses for them to interact with. We not only simplify compliance for them but also bring more confidence to transactions on their platforms - ultimately helping them grow the number of transactions and thus their business.

Elementus, a data science and blockchain intelligence company at its core, is defining the future of crypto intelligence. Founded in New York in 2017, Elementus combines proprietary data with patented algorithms to deliver unique insights, increase productivity, and enable fast, actionable decision-making within the crypto economy.

Yellow Card is a financial technology company that enables users to trade Stablecoins and other cryptocurrencies using local mobile money and bank transfers. It provides businesses with an API to manage customer transactions and offers borderless payment solutions across multiple countries. The platform also features educational resources to help users navigate digital assets effectively.

Blockdaemon is a blockchain deployment facilitator that manages nodes and payment rails for blockchain networks. Their solution is fully portable, it allows its user to switch networks and chains with the click of a button, so they don't have to worry about picking the perfect network configuration from day one. They support the blockchain developer ecosystem with best-of-breed dev-ops advice. Blockdaemon was incorporated in 2017 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

Jeeves is a fintech that brings financial solutions to empower businesses globally. Jeeves is building international fintech infrastructure from scratch; this includes a global switching layer across countries and the ability to run all the company spending corporate cards, notecards and cross-border payments on Jeeves. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in the United States.

Grayscale Bitcoin Trust is a digital currency investment company providing a familiar structure for financial and tax advisors. The company enables investors to gain exposure to BTC through a traditional investment, without the challenges of buying, storing, and safekeeping BTC.

BlockFi is a secured non-bank lender that offers USD loans to crypto-asset owners who collateralize the loan with their crypto-assets. Their products bring additional liquidity to the blockchain asset sector and meet the needs of both individuals and institutions holding blockchain assets. BlockFi holds clients' Bitcoin and Ether with a registered custodian and issues loans in USD to their bank accounts. Currently operating in beta launch, lending in 35 US states to retail investors and companies. BlockFi’s mission is to provide liquidity, transparency, and efficiency to digital financial markets by creating products that meet the needs of consumers and corporations across the globe. They leverage a sophisticated infrastructure that integrates with multiple blockchains, they plan to expand their product set based on their retail and institutional client's needs.

BlockFi was a cryptocurrency lending platform founded in 2017 that offered interest-bearing accounts, loans, and other financial services related to digital assets. The company's main product was the BlockFi Interest Account (BIA), which allowed users to deposit cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum and earn interest, with rates reaching up to 9.5% on stablecoins at one point. BlockFi generated revenue by lending out customer deposits to institutional borrowers and investing in various crypto-related financial products. The company also offered a crypto-backed credit card and trading services.
In February 2022, BlockFi reached a USD 100 million settlement with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and 32 states over allegations that its interest accounts were unregistered securities. As part of the settlement, BlockFi agreed to stop offering new BIAs to US customers and seek proper registration for its products. The company continued operations but faced challenges as the crypto market declined throughout 2022. In November 2022, following the collapse of crypto exchange FTX, BlockFi halted customer withdrawals and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. At the time of its bankruptcy filing, BlockFi owed money to over 100,000 creditors and held USD 256.5 million in cash on hand.

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