United Talent Agency (UTA) where they represent actors, writers, directors, recording artists, emerging technology companies, and corporate brands in a variety of industries, including film, television, music, digital media, intellectual property, computer and video games, commercials, voiceovers, endorsements, and entertainment marketing. Some of their clients are Johnny Depp, Harrison Ford, Owen Wilson, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jennifer Lopez, Paul Giamatti, Anthony Hopkins, Tim Robbins, Seth Rogen, James McAvoy, Ewan McGregor, Rachel McAdams, Paul Rudd, Don Cheadle, and Elizabeth Banks.

United Talent Agency

Boost VC is an early stage venture capital firm with $200m AUM+, investing in deep tech: aerospace, VR/AR, energy, climate, robotics, crypto, bio/health, AI/ML & more. Boost VC leads the first round of $2M or less.

Boost VC

Pario works with entrepreneurs, CEOs, and business owners to identify and implement an exit strategy for the founder or shareholder. Pario Ventures is also active in investment for the startup, scale phase, and then pre IPO. It was founded in 2010 by Kevin Doyle and David Murray-Hundley and is based in London, England, the United Kingdom with also an office in New York and Brussels.

Pario Ventures

Mogo is a financial technology company. They provide consumers with financial applications and solutions that help them control their financial health. Their users can sign up for a free account and get access to products and solutions that help them monitor their credit score, protect themselves from identity fraud, and control their spending.

Mogo

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

Pantera Capital is an investment firm focused exclusively on Bitcoin, other digital currencies, and companies in the space. The company believes that Bitcoin has the potential to transform the way people use money and that it will do for payments what the Internet has done for communications and commerce. Until 2014, Pantera focused on global macro hedge fund investments. The firm was founded in 2003 by Dan Morehead, who was a chief financial officer and head of Macro Trading at Tiger Management. The firm has since shifted its investment advisory services to focus exclusively on Bitcoin, other digital currencies, and companies in the space. Shareholders include Benchmark, Fortress Investment Group, and Ribbit Capital.

Pantera Capital

Jane Street is a trading firm that operates around the clock and around the globe, trading a wide range of financial products, including:

Jane Street Capital

VanEck’s mission is to offer investors forward-looking, intelligently designed investment strategies that take advantage of targeted market opportunities. Founded in 1955, the firm is a pioneer in global investing with a history of placing clients’ interests first in all market environments.

VanEck

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

WndrCo

Marcy Venture Partners (MVP) was Co-Founded by Shawn Carter (JAY-Z), Jay Brown and Larry Marcus. MVP has a passion for building innovative businesses and mass-market brands. The firm invests in Consumer & Culture with an emphasis on positive impact including sustainability, inclusivity, accessibility, empowerment and health & wellness.  Our companies are led by exceptional management teams with clear vision, purpose and executional excellence. We lead or co-invest in companies that have meaningful brand values, high customer joy driven by an outstanding product, demonstrated growth and clear catalysts for the next level of scale.

Marcy Venture Partners

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

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

Block Capital was established in 2014.  We are an investment firm that provides our investors access to a mixture of assets in the blockchain space, strategically chosen on our key fundementals: ​ The Future of Money The Future of Industry The Future of Health ​ Our founding team consists of industry pioneers - including early adopters of Bitcoin.With insights and experience going as far back as the beginning of the blockchain, we are able to analyse prospective holdings for commerciality and technical viability. This allows our investors to benefit from early investment in projects that are qualified as having a strong projected growth trajectory. We believe entrepreneurs come in all shapes and sizes - and we believe the best founders have diverse perspectives, growth mindsets, and the ability to solve big challenges by thinking outside-the-box.

Block Capital

K5 Global Advisor LLC (“K5”) is a venture capital firm and incubation studio that supports founders across the business lifecycle. The firm was founded in 2018 by Michael Kives and Bryan Baum and has deployed capital of around $1B as of September 30, 2023. K5 invests across multiple stages, from seed through growth stage companies, with a focus on Enterprise SaaS, Vertical SaaS, and FinTech. In 2023, Keenan Rice and Daniel Marcotte, investors from Tokyo Black Capital Advisors, LLC, and both on the founding team of Looker (acquired by Google in 2020 for $2.6B), joined with K5’s early-stage SaaS investing team. K5 seeks to help innovative companies expand their networks and best position them to achieve growth targets.

K5 Global

Newflow Partners is a strategic advisory firm that works with a select group of private equity firms, family offices and entrepreneurs. Together with our partners we can invest between $20 million and $500 million per transaction in companies with enterprise values typically between $50 million and $1 billion.

Newflow Partners

10T Holdings is a growth equity fund that invests in private companies operating in the digital asset ecosystem. It specializes in the fields of financial services, venture capital, and investment management. The firm was founded in 2019 and headquartered in Greenwich, Connecticut.

10T Holdings

Proptech, Consumer Tech, Healthcare Tech & Fintech early-mid stage investor

KRV Capital, LP

Gemini

Disrupting the traditional financial system using blockchain

Decentralized Finance (DeFi)

Turnkey offers blockchain infrastructure that enables users to build more user-friendly cryptocurrency wallets. Users can create wallets, embed them into their applications or websites via the company’s application programming interfaces (APIs), and automate transactions such as invoices and payments. Moreover, the platform provides users with a 50–100 ms signing latency as well as a range of security features such as passwordless authentication, and a customizable policy engine.Key customers and partnershipsAs of April 2024, the company served several enterprise clients including Thunder, Goldfinch, Terrace, Halliday, and Alchemy.Funding and financialsIn April 2024, Turnkey <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/28729">raised USD 15 million</a> in a Series A led by Lightspeed Faction and Galaxy Ventures.

Technologies bringing about a new reality

Extended Reality

Kaleidoco, established by film industry veterans Jennifer Tuft and Cassandra Rosenthal, is an entertainment technology company that specializes in creating mixed reality interactive entertainment.This includes the ‘Particle Ink Metaverse’, an original transmedia property that represents a parallel reality known as the 2.5th dimension. This narrative forms the basis of Kaleidoco's AR mobile gaming, where the story unfolds in an interactive and immersive environment.The company’s ‘Augmented Unification’ tech uses cameras to facilitate natural interactions between virtual and physical worlds, and its ‘Augmented Displays Multi-Surface’ tech enhances interactivity by projecting images into a spatially-aware three-dimensional physical environment.Additionally, Kaleidoco’s patent-pending AR multi-viewer technology allows for community-based experiences by enabling users to simultaneously view AR content from any angle in real time. This was launched in the Las Vegas Arts District.Funding and financialsKaleidoco raised USD 7 million in seed funding from blockchain and gaming investors including Animoca Brands and GameFi Ventures in <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/11209">June 2022</a>. The funds were allocated for growth and strategic hires.Key competitors: None comparable (Kaleidoco's AR multi-viewer technology is unique in the seed stage)

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.

Turnkey is a provider of scalable wallet infrastructure for crypto developers to manage private keys. Its product suite enables developers to build anything that involves a wallet or cryptographic transaction to generate and manage private keys across blockchains without compromising on security.

EarlyBird is a Fintech gifting platform that simplifies investing for parents, while empowering friends and family to seamlessly gift financial contributions to the children in their life. EarlyBird is transforming financial gifting, making it personal, purposeful, and timeless.

Ethena provides derivative infrastructure in order to transform Ethereum into the first crypto-native yield bearing stablecoin.

reNFT is a rental protocol that enables lending and borrowing of NFTs.

Empiric is the oracle on Starknet, built to empower native protocols to realize their ambitious potential.

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

Kaleidoco is a technology company built for Web3 experiences.

earnJARVIS is a crypto investment platform that helps retail investors and businesses access the full breath of the crypto economy by automating asset and yield management.

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.

The TIE is the leading provider of information services for digital assets. Their core offering, the Crypto SigDev™ Terminal, is the fastest and most comprehensive workstation for institutional digital asset investors. SigDev brings together real-time news from thousands of primary sources, with sentiment analytics, spot and derivatives, alternative, and on-chain data in a powerful and intuitive platform. The TIE's clients include the leading traditional and crypto-native hedge funds, OTC desks, market makers, trading venues, banks, sell-side firms, and other institutional market participants.

RECUR designs & develops on-chain branded experiences for fans to buy, collect, and re-sell NFTs. RECUR is chain agnostic and is fundamentally changing the NFT market by creating and setting the standard for a decentralized recurring royalty, creating the widest distribution and reach for NFTs minted on their platform. It was founded in 2021 and headquartered in Miami, Florida.

Gemini is a next-generation cryptocurrency exchange and custodian that allows customers to buy, sell, and store digital assets. The company was founded in 2014, by brothers Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, to build a bridge to the future of money. Its goal to build a world-class digital asset exchange and custodian based in the United States.

<div>Gemini is a next-generation cryptocurrency exchange and custodian that allows customers to buy, sell, and store digital assets. The company was founded in 2014, by brothers Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, to build a bridge to the future of money. Its goal to build a world-class digital asset exchange and custodian based in the United States.</div>

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 Gemini is a next-generation cryptocurrency exchange and custodian that allows customers to buy, sell, and store digital assets. The company was founded in 2014, by brothers Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, to build a bridge to the future of money. Its goal to build a world-class digital asset exchange and custodian based in the United States.
 
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 ProsperUs offers digital assets technologies that help multiple partners solve complex value transfer problems. Whether the exchanged asset is currency, loyalty points, or real estate, their platform enables its secure and frictionless peer-to-peer exchanges.
 
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 Quant is building an Internet we can trust. We're a technology provider enabling trusted digital interaction, helping create a secure digital future to the benefit of enterprises, regulators, governments, and individuals.
 
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Quant

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 Uphold’s technology enables individuals and businesses to invest, exchange, spend and transfer 84 currencies (national & digital), commodities, equities, and more globally. The eWallet, reserve, payment and open API platform allows businesses and our 6+ million users a secure way to transact between supported assets instantly, almost anywhere in the world. We offer a unique trading experience - ‘Anything-to-Anything’ - allowing customers to trade directly between asset classes, saving time and money. Uphold connects new and old money systems through the integration of blockchain networks, Interledger, banking rails in over 35 countries, and credit & debit cards. The platform enables instant peer-to-peer and spending via the Uphold debit MasterCard - send or spend currencies, commodities, equities or any other asset we support in over 150 countries.
 
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Uphold

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

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 Bithumb is a cryptocurrency exchange platform. The South Korean-based platform is also known as a leading exchange for ether, the currency of Ethereum (which in itself is immensely popular in the country). Bithumb is operated by a company called BTC Korea.com Co. Ltd.
 
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Bithumb

Cryptocurrency underpins transactions for the web3 economy

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Companies and protocols that offer digital tokens pegged to the value of a fiat currency (such as USD and EUR) or a commodity (such as gold)

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