Venrock continues a tradition of partnering with entrepreneurs to establish successful, enduring companies. With a primary focus on technology and healthcare, portfolio companies have included Apple Computer, Athenahealth, Centocor, Check Point Software, DoubleClick, Endeca, Gilead Sciences, Idec Pharma, Imperva, Illumina, Intel, Nest, SlideShare, and Tudou.

Venrock

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

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

SV Angel is a San Francisco-based venture fund. Their experience spans helping companies like Airbnb, Coinbase, Databricks, DoorDash, Faire, Flexport, GitHub, Notion, Pinterest, Snap, Square, and Stripe Scale. Over the last 30 years of investing, their core values of trust, loyalty, and integrity along with a founder-first approach have driven our strategy. They are a service organization, investing in founders who share these values. They support entrepreneurs in building lasting companies by assisting at key inflection points and leveraging networks to help them propel their businesses forward.

SV Angel

Rising Tide their technological advancements in big data analytics, computer-aided design, optical sensors, mobile applications in vertical markets, community-connected networks, and services.

Rising Tide

Union Square Ventures is a private equity and venture capital firm focused on early-stage, growth capital, late-stage, and startup financing. The USV portfolio companies create services that have the potential to fundamentally transform important markets.  It exclusively invests in the internet world, focusing on the applications layer of the web, internet services, and web services that create large networks as well as the mobile sector. Some of its invested companies are based in New York, San Francisco, London, Berlin, and places in between. It typically makes a starting investment in portfolio companies of $1 million. In certain Series Around cases, the firm may make a starting investment between $2.5 million to $3 million. It typically invests up to $20 million in any single company. Union Square Ventures was founded in 2003 and is based in New York, United States.

Union Square Ventures

Animoca Brands is a metaverse and gaming venture capital firm that focuses on driving digital property rights to gamers and internet users through NFTs. It utilizes gamification and blockchain to develop and market a portfolio of mobile applications, games, and additional products oriented to educational learning to ensure transparency, security, and new business models.

Animoca Brands

HOF Capital is a global multistage VC firm with $1 billion in AUM that partners with ambitious entrepreneurs from idea to IPO.

HOF Capital

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

Endeavor is an entertainment, sports, and content company, home to many of the world’s most dynamic and engaging storytellers, brands, live events, and experiences. The company is comprised of industry leaders including entertainment agency WME; sports, fashion, events, and media company IMG; and premier mixed martial arts organization UFc.

Endeavor

WndrCo is a holding company that acquires, operates, and develops businesses at the intersection of technology and media.

WndrCo

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

June Fund is a research-driven investor with a broad view of technological advancement and emerging economic models.

June Fund

CoinFund is a private cryptoasset investor and blockchain research and advisory firm that focuses on crypto and blockchain investments. The firm was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Brooklyn, United States.

CoinFund

GBIC (Global Blockchain Innovative Capital) is a global hub for blockchain technology that furthers the development, acceleration, and launch of blockchain projects. Our value comprises of three core fundamentals: Strategic Investment, Global Community Building, and Best in Class Partners.

GBIC

Hex Capital

AXiomatic powers unforgettable esports experiences through sports and entertainment expertise. Its mission is to build a portfolio of dynamic company holdings in the esports and video gaming industry. Through strategic partnerships, investments, and acquisitions, the team connects esports groups with valuable resources including venues, technologies, media content, distribution partners, and investment capital. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

AXiomatic

Warner Music Group is a music company with an interest in recording and publishing music and the artist services industry it operates through numerous international affiliates and licensees.

Warner Music Group

Version One Ventures backs mission-driven founders at the earliest stages. Full thesis here: https://versionone.vc/updated-thesis/

Version One Ventures

Based in Taiwan, founded in 2009, AppWorks is a leading startup community and venture capital firm built by founders, for founders. AppWorks Accelerator, the renowned 6-month free accelerator program, admits 30 - 40 AI, Blockchain, and Southeast Asia startups per batch from across the region and boasts 490 active startups and 1,589 founders in its alumni network. Collectively, all companies in the ecosystem generate annual revenue totaling US$15.3 billion (-12% YoY), and have created 23,999 jobs (+6% YoY). Altogether, the ecosystem raised a total of US$5.7 billion (+10% YoY), with an aggregate valuation reaching US$31.8 billion (+2% YoY). The AppWorks web3 ecosystem now has 129 startups and 345 founders. AppWorks web3 companies generate revenue totaling US$3.5 billion, and raised US$1.4 billion, with an aggregate valuation of US$26 billion. The AppWorks AI ecosystem now has 150 startups and 439 founders. AppWorks AI companies generate revenue totaling US$246 million, and raised US$277 million, with an aggregate valuation of US$714 million. As a VC, AppWorks manages four venture capital funds totaling US$ 350 million, typically investing in seed to Series C companies. We fund 20-30 deals a year, now with more than 100 names in our portfolio, including leading startups in several verticals such as Lalamove, Dapper Labs / Flow, Animoca Brands, 91APP, Figment, Carousell, ShopBack, Tiki, 17LIVE, and KKday, while having produced 5 IPOs, 4 IEOs, 1 hectocorn, 2 decacorns, and 5 unicorns. 【If you are a founder working on web3, AI / IoT, and Southeast Asia, apply to AppWorks Accelerator: bit.ly/3bbDw7Q】

AppWorks

Accomplice is a seed-led venture capital firm that invests in technology startup companies. Its specialties are cybersecurity, eSports, data analytics, SMB class software, emerging hardware platforms, and marketplaces.  Through platforms like AngelList, Boston Syndicates, and Maiden Lane, Accomplice harnesses the community to empower and fund the best founders. It has pioneered a community approach through platforms like Spearhead, BOSS, Rev, and TUGG. A majority of Accomplice’s investments are in Boston, with others throughout the U.S., Canada, and the E.U. Formerly known as Atlas Venture, the firm announced in October 2014 that it was splitting its technology and life sciences franchises. The technology group was renamed Accomplice; the life sciences group retained the name Atlas Venture.  Headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Accomplice is one of the most active early-stage firms in New England.

Accomplice

East Chain Co. is an investment firm focused on transformative blockchain applications. Blockchain technology is paving the way for a digital asset economy that will transform the world. At East Chain, we plan to take part in and lead this transformation to build the future we imagine.

East Chain Co.

Autonomous Partners is an investment fund focused on cryptocurrencies and digital assets.

Autonomous Partners

Fenbushi Digital’s mission is to support the world’s smartest minds leveraging blockchain.

Fenbushi Digital

Republic Labs is a growth-stage investment advisory focused on profitability and resiliency. Republic Labs works with high net-worth individuals and family offices to syndicate investment opportunities. It was founded in

Republic capital

Compound is a venture capital firm that invests in bleeding-edge technology built by outliers. They have partnered with elite operators that understand the intricacies of many different industries and various components of businesses, that help them navigate the complex systems in which each startup lives by removing roadblocks and compounding growth. Compound is based in New York City.

Compound

Graph Ventures is an investment group that specializes in seed and early-stage venture investments. It was founded in 2011.  Investments include:  * BetterUp * Birdies  * BlueApron * Dapper Labs * Earnin * Envoy * Hinge * Houseparty * Ipsy * Loft * Lever * Lingokids * Moon Express * Papaya * PicsArt * Porch * Quinto Andar * RideOS * Saildrone * Very Good Security * VivaReal  * Zeplin

Graph Ventures

CAA Ventures is the venture arm of [Creative Artists Agency](/organization/creative-artists-agency).

CAA Ventures

Caffeinated Capital is a technology venture capital firm that partners with founders at the inception stage and invest throughout the life of the company.

Caffeinated Capital

Green Bay Ventures (''GBV'') is a San Francisco based venture capital firm. The Firm is led by C. Richard ''Dick'' Kramlich and Anthony Schiller, who co-own and co-manage the Firm. Since 2012, Dick and Anthony have originated and made investments in world-class companies including Lyft, Dropbox, Xiaomi, MuleSoft, Databricks, Spotify, TransferWise, and DocuSign plus other leading early-stage venture capital deals. Dick and Anthony have designed GBV to build on the same instinct and vision which helped Dick and the firm he co-founded, NEA, pioneer investment in and commercialization of Ethernet (3Com), high capacity networking (Juniper Networks), balloon angioplasty (Advanced Cardiovascular), web-based remittances (Xoom) and graphics processing (Silicon Graphics) — but at a scale where the team can focus on a small number of high conviction opportunities and support a select group of visionary entrepreneurs working to create breakthrough technologies and transform industries. The Firm’s existing investors include some of the world’s most prominent families, top-tier venture capital investors, entrepreneurs, and Silicon Valley CEOs whose active engagement with portfolio companies provides deep domain expertise and direct access to target markets.  GBV believes that by leveraging the networks and businesses of the Firm’s investors, its portfolio companies gain an advantage — helping the growth of their businesses and the deployment of their technologies.

Green Bay Ventures

We invest in great companies in the pre-seed and seed stages.

Yes VC

The primary responsibilities of the group are to source, qualify, and invest in technology related companies. Our major investment areas include semiconductors, materials, mobile service, internet, software, security, enterprise solutions, bio engineering & medical, while potential investment subjects range from early-stage startups to pre-IPO companies. Currently, the group has over $1.8B under management and invests $250M annually.  Samsung Ventures was founded on October 8, 1999, and is based in Seoul, South Korea.

Samsung Ventures

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

A.Capital Ventures is an early-stage investment firm that finances consumer and enterprise technology companies. It was founded in 2014 by Ronny Conway. A.Capital Ventures is based in Menlo Park, California.

A.Capital Ventures

BlockTower is a crypto and blockchain investment firm that uses trading, investing, and portfolio management to this digital asset class.

BlockTower Capital

Blockchange Ventures is a venture capital firm investing exclusively in early-stage blockchain companies, protocols, and applications that are trying to make a dent in the universe. The firm was founded in 2017 and is based in New York, NY, United States.

Blockchange Ventures

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

Distributed Global is an investment firm focused on the blockchain and digital asset ecosystem.

Distributed Global

Our thesis is that the blockchain industry will disrupt entire industries. The huge influx of talent and capital leads to rapid innovation, with impressive start-up teams racing to build the most secure, decentralized and scalable Layer1 protocols, as well as developing dApps reaching mass adoption. With the regulatory side and infrastructure improving, institutional investors are moving into the new asset class. There are in excess of 700 funds active in the space today, with strategies reaching from SAFTs and pre-ICOs to fundamental long-only, long/short trading, trend-following, arbitrage, and market-making. We want to provide investors with access to this new asset class, by - sourcing the best crypto and blockchain funds globally - diversifying across strategies, geographies and managers - providing institutional quality structuring, due diligence and monitoring.

EONXI is a venture capital fund and startup studio focused on Web 3 companies. .

EONXI

We are long-term backers of early developer teams building toward an open, decentralized and more robust architecture of tomorrow’s web.

Greenfield

REED is a recruiting and employment agency.

REED

North Island Ventures is a cryptocurrency investment company. The company believes that the emergence of new enabling technologies creates the best technology investment opportunities. Enabling technologies are innovation platforms; they provide a set of new capabilities that entrepreneurs can use and combine to create applications and experiences that did not previously exist.

North Island Ventures

Pirata Capital Management is a digital asset management company focusing on directional and market neutral strategies.

Pirata Capital Management

Chaos Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm that partners with pre-seed through Series A startups. The firm was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in New York, United States.

Chaos Ventures

Coatue is a privately owned hedge fund sponsor. The firm invests in the public equity markets globally focusing on investments in technology, media, and telecommunications in addition to other sectors. It employs a long or short strategy to make its investments.

Coatue

GIC is a global investment firm established in 1981 to manage Singapore's foreign reserves. A disciplined long-term value investor, GIC is uniquely positioned for investments across a wide range of asset classes, including equities, fixed income, private equity, real estate, and infrastructure. GIC invests through funds and directly in companies, partnering with its fund managers and management teams to help world-class businesses achieve their objectives. In tech investing, GIC seeks to be a lifetime partner to the companies it invests in. GIC has investments in over 40 countries around the world. Headquartered in Singapore, GIC employs over 1,700 people across 10 offices in key financial cities worldwide.

Blisce Advisors and Blisce US - are growth stage venture investment firms focused on helping entrepreneurs build mission-driven global consumer brands and technology companies (Early Growth - Pre-IPO).  Regulatory Disclosure: The Blisce Group is an international investment management group that focuses on private equity and venture capital opportunities in technology companies and startups. The Blisce Group includes Blisce Advisors, which operates in Paris and provides direct advisory services to the Blisce Group’s clients, and Blisce US LLC, which operates in New York and focused on venture capital investment opportunities, at times on behalf of the Blisce Group. Within the Blisce Group, Charles-Henri Prevost, Alexandre Mars, Romain Sion, Romain Dovilliers, Anne-Claire Colomb, are personnel solely of Blisce Advisors, and Sam Giber & Himanish Shah are personnel solely of Blisce US LLC. The holdings identified on this page are intended to represent the current and historical investments of the Blisce Group and its partners. As such, these holdings may not represent all of the investments that have previously been purchased or sold by the Blisce Group. Furthermore, these holdings include without distinction both the proprietary investments of the Blisce Group and investments on behalf of its clients. It should not be assumed that recommendations made or investment opportunities available to clients in the future will be commensurate or profitable or otherwise will equal the performance of the holdings identified on this page.

Blisce

Bond is a venture capital firm that supports visionary founders of high-growth Internet companies throughout their life cycle of innovation and growth. The firm, a spinout of the Kleiner Perkins Digital Growth Fund, was launched in January 2019 and founded by Mary Meeker with Mood Rowghani, Noah Knauf.

Bond

True Capital Management is a multi-family office that offers business management and investment advisory services. It provides a suite of services and an open architecture wealth management platform that empowers clients to grow. The company's services surrounds business and risk management, financial planning, and investment advisory. The company believes that a comprehensive life management approach is essential to creating, managing, and maintaining wealth. True Capital Management was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

True Capital Management

Bolt Ventures is a team of entrepreneurs and investment specialists that offers seed and early stage financing solutions to companies focused on e-commerce, mobile, and subscription-based business models. It was founded in 2013 and is based in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Bolt Ventures

U.S. Venture Partners (USVP) is a venture capital partnership, helping entrepreneurs transform their ideas and efforts into world-changing companies. The firm focuses on early-stage ventures in information technology and health care, where innovation is unbridled and has led to the creation of economic wealth and millions of jobs over the past thirty-plus years of the firm's existence.  Areas of particular interest to our investment professionals include enterprise software, IT security, consumer internet, mobile, and e-commerce, healthcare, and IT-enabled healthcare services. The USVP team consists of former entrepreneurs, technologists, corporate executives, financial professionals, and industry domain experts.

U.S. Venture Partners

Sound Ventures is a venture capital firm. The company seeks to invest in the technology sector.

Sound Ventures

Sterling.VC is an early stage fund focused on web3 gaming

Sterling.VC

TCG is an independent media company. Their focus is on majority and minority investments in growing consumer businesses. Our portfolio includes digital media, commerce, marketplaces, sports, gaming, consumer finance, and health and wellness brands and platforms.

TGM ventures mainly focuses on early stage internet companies including social media companies.

TGM ventures

Dreamers VC they invest in early stage companies through the application of emerging technology in seed, A, or B rounds.

Dreamers VC

Operator Partners invests in early-stage technology companies and founders. The firm was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in New York, United States.

Operator Partners

AG Ventures is an investment arm of AG Artists.

AG Ventures

Roosh Ventures is an entrepreneurs-led VC firm with offices in Kyiv, Paris, and London. Taking on a co-investment-only approach, the firm invests from Pre-seed to Series A across various sectors with a slight focus on enterprise SaaS, fintech, gaming, and AI-driven products in the EU and US markets. Since its launch in 2020, the firm has already backed stars such as Deel, TheGuarantors, Oura, Pipe, Alma, Playco, Dapper Labs, Arkis, and 35+ other companies. Part of Roosh Investment Group, Roosh Ventures drives growth and success for portfolio companies by providing tailored support in AI/ML strategy planning and implementation, mobile app growth insights, B2B gaming sales expertise, and comprehensive assistance in talent acquisition, fundraising, legal consulting, and public relations. For more about Roosh Ventures and its portfolio companies, visit roosh.vc.

Roosh Ventures

Page One Ventures is an early-stage venture firm.

Page One Ventures

Dapper Labs

Metaverse Experience Platforms

Genies claims to be the world’s largest avatar technology company and provides tools to create avatars across metaverse and social media platforms. The company started rolling out its avatar creator tools in private beta in April 2022, with plans to add avatar home and social experience creation tools to its offering.&nbsp;Genies also offers “The Warehouse” (August 2022), an NFT fashion storefront developed in collaboration with Dapper Labs on the Flow blockchain, which allows users to trade and personalize virtual wearables for digital avatars. Genies charges a 5% fee on each NFT sale and shares the remainder with creators, which is considered favorable for creators compared to the ~50% fee charged for NFTs by Meta on Horizon Worlds.Initiatives taken to bolster third-party creation of avatars include:1) The launch of “The Workshop,” equipping artists with tools and guides to produce Genies-ready digital fashion (<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/21763">September 2023</a>)2) The launch of its developer kit, which includes an Avatar Framework, XR Compatibility, and a GenAI Gameplay Bot, enabling creators to build personalized avatar experiences and contribute to an interoperable ecosystem of experiences, all connected by "Things" that users can collect, earn, and use for self-expression (May 2023)3) The launch of the Developer Engagement Fund to reward developers that build AR experiences via Genies’ developer kit. The total fund size is USD 1 million. Additionally, the company launched an AI-powered feature to create personalized avatars for celebrities in <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/20808">August 2023</a>.4) The launch of the Genies’ Trait Framework, a system designed to add depth and dynamism to digital identities in the Genies Ecosystem (January 2024). The framework aims to represent not just the visual aspect of an avatar but also its personality, quirks, and other characteristics, with developers being provided an API to read and write Trait values.Key customers and partnershipsThe company has benefited from high-profile partnerships with celebrities and athletes who have used Genies’ avatars for social media posts and other applications, such as stand-ins for online events. These include partnerships with Universal Music, Warner Music Group, NFLPA, MLBPI, NBPA, and celebrities such as Justin Bieber, Shawn Mendes, Rihanna, Migos, Cardi B, and J Balvin.&nbsp;Funding and financialsIn its latest funding round (April 2022), Genies raised USD 150 million in funding from Silver Lake, valuing the company at USD 1 billion. The funds were raised to expand its engineering team and invest further in its core technology.

Tally Labs is a decentralized digital avatar platform that provides characters and virtual clothing for avatars to be used in metaverse platforms. The company offers a custom-built and NFT-gated platform (the Writers' Room) for character creation, licensing, and community collaboration. The offering also includes a Web3 solution for creators to distribute NFT-gated content to their respective communities.In May 2022, the company raised USD 12 million in a seed funding round led by a16z Crypto. The funds were raised to expand the intellectual property and commercialization of its NFT project centered around the Bored Ape character Jenkins the Valet to a broader range of mediums. The company also planned to expand its team.

A foundational component to the next generation of digital entertainment.

Esports

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Giving creators the power of content monetization and audience engagement.

Creator Economy

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 Tellie is a membership-based web3 no-code website builder that enables creators to build token-gated websites to share and monetize their content by providing tiered access to followers and building communities. By pasting a link, creators can embed tools to drive traffic to their website, such as Shopify, Eventbrite, and MailChip. Further, the platform provides creators ownership of their content through integrations with decentralized file storage and mapping solutions such as ArWeave and InterPlanetary File System (IPFS). Tellie also allows for the minting of NFTs, which provide keys for fans to unlock exclusive content and utilities. Creators are allowed to set their own loyalty rates, with the minting and listing of an NFT on Tellie being free. The platform token gates support up to three tokens across multiple chains, meaning creators can add gates for supporters who own NFTs from multiple collections or give both social token and NFT holders access to the same exclusive content. As of June 2022, Tellie supported Polygon, Ethereum, Binance, Avalanche, and Flow tokens, with plans to support Solana-based tokens. The platform was in public beta as of April 2023.&nbsp;
 
 
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Sports Tech

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 OneFootball’s goal is to fuel the world’s football obsession. Reaching more than 70 million football fans worldwide every month, across its platform and social media channels, OneFootball is the most popular football media platform for the new generation of football fans. It is the only app with a fully personalised home stream for non- stop news of your favourite club and the only company to offer single live football matches in-app on a pay-per-view basis. In the spirit that football is more than just 90 minutes, OneFootball operates a 24-hour newsroom to provide fans across the world with the comprehensive football content they crave - from statistics and live scores of 200+ leagues and competitions worldwide to breaking news, highlight clips, transfer rumors and live streaming. Native integration from OneFootball’s network of over 200 independent content creators, clubs, federations, players and broadcasters adds an additional 13,000+ pieces of content per week. OneFootball is available in 12 languages and is the best rated sports app in the world, based on millions of App Store and Google Play reviews. Founded twelve years ago, the company has 220 employees at its headquarters in Berlin and regional offices in London, New York, Mexico City and São Paulo.
 
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A decentralized version of the web powered by the blockchain

Web3 Ecosystem

Based in Canada, LayerZero Labs develops omnichain interoperability protocols (called LayerZero) to connect different blockchains that allow dApps to exist on multiple chains. The LayerZero protocol works by using on-chain nodes and non-upgradable smart contracts, with users only required to pay for transaction fees on the source chain. The protocol connects over 30 mainnet blockchains including EVM-compatible chains such as Ethereum, Avalanche, and Polygon. In December 2023, the company introduced its v2 iteration, launching over 40 testnets for the blockchain networks it supports. The upgraded release aims to streamline third-party development, enhance security, and improve throughput.The company also offers a cross-chain liquidity transfer protocol Stargate, which is built on top of the LayerZero protocol.Key customers and partnershipsNotable customers using its technology include PancakeSwap, Sushiswap, and Uniswap.In July 2022, LayerZero Labs collaborated with Singapore-based GameFi company Ethlas to enable the latter’s metaverse platform to be accessed by users in other blockchains such as Ethereum, while enabling users to move tokens (money) across the different networks. It also entered into a strategic <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/21768">partnership with Google Cloud</a> in September 2023, with the latter serving as an outside verifier to attest to the reliability of the information transmitted on its protocol.Funding and financialsThe company raised <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/17510">USD 120 million in Series B funding</a> at a valuation of USD 3 billion in April 2023. The round saw participation from 33 investors including Andreessen Horowitz (a16z crypto fund), Circle Ventures, Sequoia Capital, OpenSea, and Samsung Next. It had earmarked the fresh funds towards growth initiatives, including hiring and expanding the company’s presence in the Asia-Pacific region, as well as in the Web3 gaming space.As of April 2023, LayerZero Labs had processed over USD 6 billion in transactional volume.

Imbuing emotion into human-digital interactions

Digital Humans

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Yoz Labs is a Web3 notification platform working towards its goal of building a scalable messaging rail, enabling developers to send instant on-chain notifications directly to users.

Spexi is the first-of-its-kind FLY TO EARN network enabling drone pilots to earn rewards for flying and capturing aerial imagery at scale. Spexi also enables organizations to quickly and easily access high-resolution aerial imagery to better prepare for disasters, enable smart cities, remotely inspect infrastructure, monitor natural resources, and so much more without needing to own drones or hire pilots.

Antic’s scalable infrastructure is intended for any business seeking the addition of a co-ownership layer to their offerings. Its infrastructure freely enables businesses and individuals to do whatever they want with whatever they own - sell it, provide access to it, add additional co-owners to it and more. With original, seamless co-sharing functionalities like ad-hoc multi signature wallets and group decision making to retrieve assets, Antic’s new approach makes any digital asset or IP accessible to all parties interested in joining, unlocking new revenue streams for every co-owner.

Nandi Labs thinks that by using the community's vast worldwide tapestry and impact, Web3 technology can unlock the power of Black culture's premier producers to develop a thriving ecosystem for new talent. We are erasing all boundaries to thrive at Digital FESTAC, unleashing the ideas of the most daring and fearless storytellers, so that Black dreams can become a reality. The immersive approach of Digital FESTAC to real-world and metaverse games, performances, and experiences will reinvent play, creativity, and ownership.

Revolving Games is a mobile game studio that creates and delivers Web3 experiences for gamers. The company is working on cutting-edge technology to develop scalable MMOs and deep strategy games. Their team consists of veterans who have worked on games that have generated over $3B in revenue. It was founded in 2019 and is based in San Francisco, California.

NFT Genius is a digital experience and marketplace technology company. They provide services for storytellers and innovators. An online inquiry form is available on the company's website.

iXp (formerly known as iXperience) is revolutionizing marketing with next-generation engagement and rewards.

Invisible Universe is an internet-first animation studio that develops original character IP on social media and web3 platforms. Its mission is to create the next household name animated franchises faster and more economical than traditional models. We believe the next generation of animated franchises will be born on the internet.

Check Me is a Web3 platform that rewards users with tokens for their social interaction. By executing a check-in act in restaurants, hotels, or even food stands throughout the world, users of their network can access their unlimited earnings. Their management services are designed to make it easier for clients to access their money swiftly and without lines.

Evaluate.Market is a non-fungible token calculator platform intended to analyze, track and discover NFTs. Founded in 2021, it operates in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The company's platform allows users to buy, sell and analyze digital collectibles, enabling users to make it easy to understand decisions around buying and selling NFTs.

Klearcoat Labs is a minority owned Web3 company that fuses both Artificial Intelligence with Blockchain Technology to build the digital infrastructure that will allow automotive brands to deploy digital replicas (digital twins) of their products throughout multiple digital platforms. We are creating a suite of smart decentralized automotive assets and experiences that give ownership and access to a new digitally native automotive community. Automotive brands can turn NFTs into a revenue generating, consumer engaging, loyalty driving, partnership building, FORCE for their brand. But they need the right strategy, the right tools and the right partner. We bring previous automotive experience and the technology solutions for integrating digital assets in enterprise-level automotive organizations.

Stadium Live Studios is a sports community platform that creates a virtual playground where fans can hang out, play games, buy and earn digital collectibles, and express their individuality. Stadium Live Studios aims to be the go-to destination for next-gen sports and culture fans.

Crypthulhu Studios develops blockchain-based gaming studios intended for Web3 gaming. Their blockchain technology runs on Web3, allowing collaboration between developers and gamers that utilizes distributed ledger technology to offer greater transparency, security, democratization, and user control over in-game assets, offering players a longer-lasting, immersive gaming experience to play RPG games seamlessly.

Zigazoo is a rapidly growing social media brand featuring the recently launched Generation Z-focused Zigazoo app and Zigazoo Kids, which launched in 2020 and has since become the world’s largest social network for Generation Alpha.  Zigazoo makes screentime healthier, safer and more creative.  The video-first apps have empowered millions to express their authentic selves within a positive social media environment and has become a priority destination for top tier creator talent, celebrities, and best-in-class brands including the NBA, Warner Brothers, Paramount Pictures, Amazon, Apple TV+, Netflix, and WWE. Since launch in 2020, Zigazoo has been backed by the NBA, Liberty City Ventures, MaC Venture Capital, Causeway Media Partners, Serena Ventures, Talis Capital, Wheelhouse Entertainment, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Charli & Dixie D’Amelio, and Jimmy Kimmel, and many more tech and entertainment heavyweights.

OnChain Studios is a software company that intends to bring ownership to interactive experiences.

Developer of an all-in-one commerce & content platform designed to serve as a bridge between existing Web2 services and the Web3 ecosystem. The company's platform helps the creator turn their personal website into a creative library & digitally-native commerce platform, and expands the accessibility of Web3 to all creators, enabling them to build an interactive website, portfolio, or link-in-bio in minutes for every drop.

Just Women's Sports they provide podcasts, social media, and editorial content.

Tally Labs is build characters, and tools of the metaverse.

Phantom Galaxies is an open-world mech combat game, currently in Alpha, developed by Blowfish Studios. Phantom Galaxies will be one of the first blockchain-based AAA game titles to launch with broad appeal to both traditional gaming enthusiasts and Web3 natives. Three of the four episodes of the Alpha version are available now, and early access to the Beta launch is expected to occur in Q3 2022.

Sift is an AI-first platform to bring community-led teams from Chaos to Clarity. Understand, Support, and Manage your communities across Discord, Slack, Github and more. As companies evolve today, their early adopters and most engaged champions live in their communities. Sift gives these companies everything they need to ensure these community users are successful, to leverage these communities effectively, and operate them efficiently. From understanding customer voice, sentiment analysis and GPT-powered Q&A to seamless integration into customer success and product workflows, Sift is a rich and enterprise-ready platform that will scale with you as you grow your product and community.

The Football Company is an NFT based fantasy football manager. Revenue Coverage Q1 2024 - not found

OneFootball partners with over 150 clubs, leagues, federations, players and brand partners to bring their content to the OneFootball network across 194 markets, and with a video distribution network that includes around 250 premium publishers partners globally. Founded in 2008, OneFootball is the leading football media platform for a new generation of mobile-first football fans. Serving many millions of fans every month OneFootball brings fans closer to the game with breaking news, highlight clips, live streaming and more.

Flowty is a peer-to-peer (P2P) collateralized NFT lending marketplace that enables borrowers to access liquidity using Flow-based NFTs as collateral and lenders to generate interest income by funding loans secured by NFTs.

NFTBank involves the creation of a digital asset in the form of a non-fungible token that builds and manages the entire portfolio in one place. They enable holders to overcome the illiquid nature of their instruments and help users better manage liquidity risk.

trac is an artist monetization platform. We provide the virtual infrastructure every artist and their teams need to easily monetize their content, name, and likeness directly with their fans. Our long-term vision is to tokenize the economy around the artist, using smart contracts and the blockchain to help them sell their music, build their brand/community and track their impact more effectively and efficiently.

Flipside Crypto provides unparalleled analytics and business intelligence to crypto organizations. Their suite of analytics tools provides insights into user behaviors, developer activities, and financial activities, as well as FCAS, a relative value for measuring the fundamental health of cryptocurrency projects. It provides analytics to cryptocurrency organizations and distributes FCAS via partners such as CoinMarketCap, Messari, MarketWatch, and TheStreet. Flipside Crypto is backed by CoinBase Ventures, True Ventures, Founder Collective, Digital Currency Group, and other investors. Dave Balter, Eric Stone, and Jim Myers established it in Boston, Massachusetts in 2017.

Battlebound use blockchain technology to create play to earn games.

LayerZero Labs is a blockchain messaging protocol developer that allows decentralized applications build across multiple blockchains. The company is a User Application (UA) configurable on-chain endpoint that runs a ULN.

Joyride builds entertainment franchises powered by mobile games and scaled on an industry-leading publishing platform enabled by the latest AI and blockchain technologies. Our franchises provide themed experiences anchored on shared story worlds and consistent game formats. Within these franchises, we build games with characters and stories that will stick with players, with new takes on familiar RPG and casual games.

The Petaverse Network is an interoperable data solution that allows users to create an infinite number of virtual companions to accompany them across the metaverse. The Petaverse Network aims to establish an open standard for cross-chain, interoperable pets in the metaverse.

We are Petaverse Network.  Our aim is simple but robust - we are building an open standard for digital pets. An interoperable data solution for creating infinite virtual companions to be by your side, across the metaverse. Pets to bond with, who will learn, evolve, and behave based on their specific 'DNA' and the interactions you have with them.  Soon, we will be helping people to adopt their first digital pets and take them into the first of many experiences they will be able to have with virtual companion. Embracing the wonders of #web3 we invite partnership with other creators across the metaverse.

Matrix Labs is a passionate group of blockchain enthusiasts who are working to build the metaverse and expand the influence of blockchain technology.

3Box storage is simple, secure, and private by design. Apps that store data with users on 3Box are lighter, more trustworthy, and enjoy reduced data management liability.

Everyrealm is a digital real estate vehicle that invests in virtual worlds through NFTs. They invest in, manage, and develop assets including NFTs, virtual real estate, metaverse platforms, gaming, and infrastructure.

Unblocked focuses on transforming the future of music and entertainment.   Unblocked was founded in 2021 and was headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

KLKTN is a curated music, manga and art NFT platform connecting creators with fans through special experiences. The platform allows fans to access special edition digital art and behind-the-scenes moments of artists' creative process. In collaboration with top creators and artists and powered by blockchain technology, KLKTN is taking artist-fan engagement and the best of creative experiential culture into the digital world. Artworks are available as a limited supply of authenticated digital products or NFTs, for purchase via credit card, with a fixed cost per item. KLKTN's co-founders are Jeff Miyahara, Chief Creative Officer and a renowned record producer and songwriter who has produced over 260 international artists; Fabiano Soriani, Chief Technology Officer and former lead blockchain engineer for Dapper Labs; and Daisuke Iwase, Chief Executive Officer, Harvard Business School graduate, former World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, and a digital pioneer known for co-founding Lifenet, a disruptive fintech venture, which he took to IPO. Built on the Flow blockchain to achieve affordable and environmentally-sustainable minting, KLKTN leaves more for artists, fans, and the planet.

MintGate is a blockchain company that helps NFT creators create tokens or keys specific to their community for their users.

Our thin layer over the Flow blockchain allows developers to read, write, and query the blockchain using any language. Graffle provides access to the blockchain through APIs, webhooks, and websockets — enabling teams to build without technical barriers. Providing developers with our toolkit and infrastructure allows them to create consumer experiences without the complexity of adopting Blockchain as their infrastructure.

Metaversal is an investment firm and venture studio focused on non-fungible tokens. The company has already purchased over 750 NFTs and made investments in technology startups. Metaversal was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Miami Beach, FL.

RSS3 is an open protocol designed for content and social networks in the Web 3.0 era.

Space Metaverse is a virtual commerce platform that allows users to build a life and career in a stunningly realistic 3D environment. It gives its citizens access to a 3D virtual world in which they can create content, build businesses, find work, and collaborate. It is a user-owned immersive 3D social platform.

The Tibles digital collecting ecosystem on the Flow blockchain is premised on the value of ownership, rooted in the experience of collecting, and designed to propel brands into this new era.

SportsIcon lets users connect with sportspeople through NFT’s and masterclasses.

Burrata is a computer software provider and developer that bridges Web2 to Web3.

Starly is a launchpad and marketplace for gamified NFT collections. Aimed to make the NFT creating, selling, and collecting as simple as possible, it offers the ultimate experience to creators and their fans. Created by an experienced team who previously founded social networks F3 with 30+ million users and Ask.fm with 150+ million users, Starly is powered by the engines and techniques used for creating virality.

The Open Meta Association views the emergent metaverse as a public utility that everyone can use and upon which anyone can build and most importantly, derive value.  The Open Meta Association is a community-driven DAO that invests in blockchain-agnostic initiatives that support the metaverse, both in gaming and the growth of the ecosystem at large.

Polarise Protocol combines the new NFT standard of ERC-1000 with the protocol's proprietary financial tools, establishing a new liquidity facilitation mechanism in the Web3 - NFT domain.

GuildFi is a gaming platform that empowers all gamer communities and creates interoperability across the Metaverse.

Faze app is a Cricket NFT platform where fans can collect, use, play, and interact with cricket through NFTs. It combines NFTs, gaming, utilities, and real-world experiences to create a platform for fans to collect, use, play, and interact. It was founded in 2021.

Mask Network build the bridge between Web 2.0 (Platforms such as Twitter) and Web 3.0 -  By letting users send encrypted messages to friends, send and receive cryptocurrency and share files, and interact with DApps, all on a decentralized level. Mask Network offers the ability to fund Gitcoin grant campaigns directly from Twitter, as well as plans to offer p2p payments and decentralized storage functionality. It is a decentralized portal that also allows users to use DApps like crypto payments, decentralized finance, decentralized storage, e-commerce (digital goods/NFTs) and decentralized organizations (DAO) over the top of existing social networks without migrating, creating what is referred to as a decentralized Applet (DApplet) ecosystem.

Mint Songs is the largest music NFT marketplace helping music artists build web3 communities.

Decentology operates as a block-chain startup. Decentology is the innovative company behind Hyperverse, the open, composable smart contracts marketplace that makes it easy for developers to discover, build and monetize web3 applications.

Concept Art House is a leading art service provider and original IP studio.

Founded in 2017, GigLabs is on a mission to empower brands, creators and collectors to create defining and memorable NFT experiences. The company partners with brands, agencies and creators to provide easy-to-use products for generating, minting, and selling NFTs that can be presented within fully customizable brand experiences, both on the web and in VR. Built by the GigLabs’ team of experienced blockchain developers and NFT enthusiasts, the API-driven NFT Bridge platform delivers flexible and scalable NFT tools that allow any brand to build any NFT experience imaginable.  RareRooms (www.rarerooms.io) is GigLabs’ customizable 3D immersive metaverse for showcasing NFTs - digital collectibles, art and more - that’s integrated across multiple blockchains.

Own best-in-class content, merchandise, and performances from your favorite comedians. Share, sell, or rent your assets across the world.

Yup is a crypto-backed social media platform.

DigiPlay is a free to play, browser-based gaming service that allows anyone to access console games on low end PC's, right through the web.

Sturdy Exchange is a platform that allows musicians, brands, and entertainers to reach the masses with a new form of ownership and utility through the use of Non Fungible Tokens (NFTs). The platform offers the ultimate fan experience by democratizing access to NFTs at a variety of price points. Users can show off their collection, support their favorite artists, and gain real-world utility.

RCRDSHP is a digital collectibles platform for electronic music.

Alethea AI is a decentralized protocol to create intelligent and interactive NFTs powered by GPT-3. We are originators of the iNFT standard and are on the cutting edge of embedding AI animation, interaction, and generative AI capabilities into NFTs.

MomentRanks is the premier nonfungible token (NFT) resource platform, offering analytics and tracking tools for NBA Top Shot collectors. MomentRanks is committed to providing an unmatched user experience, with educational tools that allow even the most inexperienced newcomers to NFTs an opportunity to launch their collecting journey and engage with the NFT community.

Community Gaming is the all-in-one esports competition platform, offering cutting edge infrastructure to key industry stakeholders. Through its seamless UX, plus highly scalable and efficient blockchain payment technology, the platform equips players, guilds, competition organizers, and game developers with the tools they need to create, facilitate, and participate in esports tournaments. Community Gaming believes in Earnings for Everyone, where the massive gains of the wider esports and gaming industry are decentralized and accessible via web3 technology to reward action and time.

Dynasty Studios is a VC-backed game company creating next-generation games. They are strive to lead the mass adoption of blockchain technology through never-before-seen gameplay. Dyansty Studio's games are built with this goal in mind, and they will pave the way for this new paradigm of true Web3 gaming. The company's established staff of professional game developers all share a strong desire to create player-driven experiences.

Infinite Objects is a company building physical collectibles (“Video Prints”) and web3 integrations for digital content backed by blockchain assets. From personal moments to art, entertainment,  sports, and NFTs - We Print Video so it can be enjoyed outside of the browser and apps in the form of beautiful, permanently treated immutable design objects.

Genies is culture’s leading avatar technology company empowering humans to create their own avatar experiences. To-date, Genies has been widely adopted by cultural tastemakers and has partnerships with Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group as their rosters’ “official avatar.” Genies has recently launched its consumer arm via its AR Developer Kit which allows developers to create interoperable avatar experiences for mobile and hardware AR. Their first avatar experience, Silver Studio, allows users to design and exchange digital fashion. Genies has raised $250M from investors such as  Silver Lake, BOND, NEA, and Bob Iger valuing the company at $1 billion.

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