FBG Capital is a digital asset management firm in blockchain-based capital market.

FBG Capital

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

Galois Capital is a crypto trading fund. The company's flagship Alpha Fund focuses on strategies in algorithmic market making and OTC trading.The advent of cryptocurrencies and cryptoassets brings an opportunity to trade in a nascent but lucrative market.

Galois Capital

Consensus Lab is an institutional investor engaged in the research, investment, and incubation integration of the blockchain field. They focus on blockchain-related investments, incubation of start-ups, and promoting research in the field of distributed ledger technology.

Consensus Lab

Race Capital is an early-stage venture fund focused on all things infrastructure across Web2 and Web3. They are early investors in Databricks, Vectara, Zeet, RapidAPI, Agora.io, etc and have built a top notch team spanning across networks in terms of industry background and operating experience.

Race Capital

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

Redline DAO has invested in digital assets and blockchain companies. We have ten years history of traditional finance investments. Founded in 2017, Redline DAO is a global investment fund focused on blockchain project research and has invested in more than 200 projects while achieving an overall return of more than 100 times. Redline DAO has invested in Polkadot, FTT, Algorand and Casper and also in partnership with Alameda Research, Binance, Chianlink, FTX, Kucoin, Bybit, Ouyi and Huobi.

Redline DAO

Sequoia is a venture capital focused on energy, financial, enterprise, healthcare, internet, and mobile startups. The firm helps a small number of daring founders build legendary companies. It spurs them to push the boundaries of what’s possible. The firm seeks to invest in all sectors with a focus on energy, financials and financial services, healthcare and healthcare services, Internet, mobile, outsourcing, and technology.

Sequoia Capital

Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan invests and administers the pensions of active and retired teachers. It invests the pension fund's assets and administers the pensions of 284,000 active and retired teachers in Ontario. A pension plan has existed for Ontario teachers since 1917. Today, the plan's members include 173,000 teachers in elementary and secondary schools in Ontario, 111,000 pensioners, and 72,000 inactive members. The plan has one of Canada's largest payrolls with $4.2 billion in benefits paid to plan members and $2.3 billion received in total contributions from teachers and the provincial government in 2008.

Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan

Tiger Global Management is an investment firm that deploys capital globally. Tiger Global seeks to earn superior risk-adjusted returns for its investors over the long term. The firm’s fundamentally oriented investments focus primarily on the global Internet, technology, telecom, media consumer, and industrial sectors. The private equity strategy has a ten-year investment horizon and targets growth-oriented private companies. The public equity efforts emphasize deep due diligence on individual companies and long-term secular themes.

Tiger Global Management

Temasek Holdings is a lender provider. The company offers debt financing and focuses on transforming economies, increasing middle-income populations, developing comparative advantages, and emerging champions. Financial services, transportation, industrial, consumer, real estate, telecommunications, media, technology, and life sciences are among the industries served by the firm.

Temasek Holdings

Ribbit Capital is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage companies. The firm invests globally in individuals and brands who are aiming to disrupt financial services.  The investment firm was founded in 2012 by Meyer Malka and headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Ribbit Capital

Telstra Ventures is a corporate venture capital arm of Telstra. It invests in technology companies and offers synergy revenues to its portfolio companies and financial returns to its limited partners. The firm's mission is to invest in market-leading, high-growth companies that are strategically aligned with Telstra. They target companies with great products or services, particularly in mobile, cloud, and media; lighthouse people; headquarters in the USA, Australia, or Asia; and typically have $1M to $50M in revenue. Telstra Ventures plans to complete approximately 4-6 new investments plus follow-on investments per year. Telstra is a ~$65B market capitalization communications services company, headquartered in Australia, with significant operations in Asia, the US, and Europe.

Telstra Ventures

IVP turns breakout companies into enduring market leaders. With a 40-year record of driving growth and 130+ IPOs, we’ve partnered with over 400 companies including Amplitude, Brex, Coinbase, Crowdstrike, Datadog, Discord, Klarna, Slack, Snap, and Twitter. As trusted allies, IVP helps founders and CEOs meet the challenge of leading a rapidly growing company. Its proven system bolsters functions including those that are sometimes overlooked and partners serve as trusted allies to companies seeking to realize their full potential.

BlackRock is an investment management company that provides its services to a diverse range of clients, including institutions, intermediaries, foundations, and individual investors. The firm operates as a global asset manager, overseeing and advising on a wide array of investment portfolios. In addition to its role as an investment manager, BlackRock is also known for its technological innovations and solutions that support various aspects of the financial industry. The company's multifaceted approach encompasses investment management, financial technology, and serving a broad spectrum of clients in the financial ecosystem.

BlackRock

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

Lightspeed Venture Partners

ICONIQ Growth partners with exceptional entrepreneurs and leaders who drive global impact and change. The firm is inspired by visionaries defining the future of their industries by building company cultures that endure. ICONIQ Growth has a unique investment platform harnesses the power of ICONIQ Capital’s vibrant ecosystem of founders, pioneers, and business leaders with the goal of delivering tangible value and amplifying our portfolio companies’ success from early growth stage to IPO and beyond. ICONIQ Growth’s portfolio of innovators includes Adyen, AirBnB, Alibaba, Alteryx, Automattic, BambooHR, Braze, Chime, Collibra, Coupa, Datadog, Docusign, Gitlab, Marqeta, Miro, Procore, Red Ventures, Relativity, ServiceTitan, Snowflake, Sprinklr, Truckstop, Uber, Wolt, and Zoom, among others.

ICONIQ Growth

Investing in the forefront of technologies

Hercules Capital

Insight Partners is a global software investor that partners with growth-stage technology and software companies. Insight has a deep focus in Fintech, Cybersecurity, AI/ML, DevOps, and Healthcare sectors. Across their people and their portfolio, they encourage a culture around a core belief growth equals opportunity. As of December 31, 2022, the firm has over $75B in regulatory assets under management. Insight Partners has invested in more than 750 companies worldwide and has seen over 55 portfolio companies achieve an IPO.

Insight Partners

New Enterprise Associates, Inc. is a global venture capital firm focused on helping entrepreneurs build transformational businesses across multiple stages, sectors, and geographies. With over $19 billion in cumulative committed capital since the firm’s founding in 1977, NEA invests in technology and healthcare companies at all stages in a company’s lifecycle, from the seed stage through IPO. The firm's long track record of successful investing includes more than 210 portfolio company IPOs and more than 360 acquisitions.

New Enterprise Associates

Third Point Ventures is the venture capital arm of Third Point LLC, a registered investment adviser based in New York, with approximately $5 billion of assets under management. The firm was founded in 1995 by Daniel S. Loeb. Third Point Ventures is led by Robert Schwartz, an industry veteran with more than 25 years of experience in private equity and technology company management, and is based in Sunnyvale, California.

Third Point Ventures

Thoma Bravo is a private equity firm with a 40-year history, including over $30 billion in investor commitments, and a focus on investing in software and technology companies. It pioneered the buy-and-build investment strategy and first applied this strategy to the software and technology industries nearly 20 years ago. Since then, the firm has acquired more than 200 software and technology companies representing over $50 billion in value. Its investment philosophy is centered around working collaboratively with existing management teams to drive superior operating results and innovation. They execute through a partnership-driven approach supported by a set of management principles, operating metrics, and business processes. It supports companies by investing in growth initiatives and strategic acquisitions that drive long-term value.

Thoma Bravo

Altimeter Capital is a technology-focused investment firm based in Menlo Park, CA and Boston, MA.  Altimeter manages a long/short public equity fund and growth-stage private capital funds.

Altimeter Capital

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

Blackstone Group is a private equity firm that invests in private equity, real estate, public debt, equity, non-investment grade credit, real assets, and secondary funds.

Blackstone Group

Senator Investment Group is a hedge-fund firm providing services to pooled investment vehicles. It specializes in the fields of financial services and investment management. It was formed in 2008 and headquartered in New York, United States.

Senator Investment Group

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

Multicoin Capital is a thesis-driven cryptofund that invests long term in tokens that reshape entire sectors of the global economy. It is on a mission to accelerate the transition from the centralized institutions of the industrial age to the decentralized institution of the internet age. By accelerating the transition from permissioned to permissionless financial systems, Multicoin aims to accelerate humanity’s ability to achieve its full potential. Multicoin Capital was established in 2017 and is based in Austin, Texas.

Multicoin Capital

Coinbase Ventures is an investment arm of Coinbase that aims to invest in seed-stage cryptocurrency and blockchain startups. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in San Francisco, California, United States.

Coinbase Ventures

SoftBank Vision Fund is a subsidiary of Softbank Group that specializes in growth capital and social impact investments. Sectors that the fund invests in include the internet of things, artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, communications infrastructure, telecoms, computational biology, biotech, cloud technologies and software, consumer internet businesses, financial technology, and mobile apps. The Fund is designed to be a catalyst for technology progress in anticipation that it will expand SoftBank's capabilities, accelerating progress towards SoftBank 2.0. It aims to invest in businesses and foundational platforms that SoftBank believes to revolutionize and innovate the world tomorrow.

SoftBank Vision Fund

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

Paradigm is a crypto-focused investment firm based in San Francisco. It invests in crypto-assets and businesses from idea formation through to maturity. They take a really hands-on approach to assisting projects in reaching their full potential, from technical mechanism design, smart contract security, engineering, through operational recruiting and regulatory strategy.

Paradigm

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.

L1 Digital

40 North Ventures is 40 North’s early-to-growth stage venture capital fund focused on technologies in the industrial sector that enable businesses to be more data-driven, agile, consumer-centric and environmentally sustainable.

40 North Ventures

Willoughby Capital is an investment firm that combines institutional scale with a permanent capital base. Willoughby is focused on partnering with best-in-class growth companies across private and public markets. It was founded in 2009 by Daniel Och and is headquartered in New York, United States.

Willoughby Capital

Ryze Labs

Buck Stash is a venture capital firm that specializes in seed, early, mid, and late stage investments. It prefers to invest in the social media business and technology sector, with a focus on software, back-end infrastructure, Internet infrastructure, 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 medicine

Buck Stash

Karatage

Lux Capital manages over $5 billion in assets focused on founding, seed, early-stage, and growth investments at the intersection of technology and the sciences. Lux takes an active role in helping entrepreneurs build successful businesses in high-growth sectors. Its investment team has built over 20 companies from scratch. Lux's investment strategy ensures portfolio companies are better connected, have a deeper insight, and command industry leadership faster than their competitors.

Lux Capital

Steadview is a leading global investment firm headquartered out of London with over US$4 billion in AUM. The fund has a crossover structure and makes concentrated long-term investments in both public markets and private equity with a primary focus on technology-oriented businesses. Steadview's capital base is supported by a sophisticated group of institutional investors including leading sovereign wealth funds, university endowments, pension funds, foundations, and family offices.

Steadview Capital

Genblock Capital invests exclusively in blockchain and cryptocurrency, with a focus on decentralized finance. We have been deeply entrenched in the crypto markets since early 2017, and invest in liquid cryptocurrencies on the secondary market as well as early-stage funding rounds. We aim to be power users of the project we invest in and help projects with bootstrapping liquidity, token economics, market making, marketing, and connecting founders with our vast network.

Genblock Capital

A decentralized version of the web powered by the blockchain

Web3 Ecosystem

Based in Vietnam, Sky Mavis is a game studio developing blockchain-based games that incorporate player-owned economies and marketplaces for trustless trading of unique digital assets.Its flagship video game is Axie Infinity, a play-to-earn NFT-based game launched in March 2018. Axie Infinity gameplay involves players collecting and raising pets called Axies (represented by NFTs) to fight and hunt for treasures. Players can mint Axies as well as buy and trade them in a marketplace. The game had a peak of 2.8 million monthly users in January 2022 and, as of September 2023, averaged at ~348,000 monthly users. Axie Infinity is deployed on a dedicated side-chain named the Ronin Network and is connected to the Ethereum blockchain through the Ronin Bridge, which allows for the transfer of digital assets between the networks. Moreover, the company also developed a free-to-play card-based strategy game called Axie Infinity: Origins, which launched in December 2022.In addition, Sky Mavis launched Mavis Hub: Greenlight as a part of Axie Infinity's builders' program. The platform offers game builds, tools, and potential funding to support game developers in creating new games within the Axie ecosystem.Funding and financialsIn April 2022, Sky Mavis raised USD 150 million in a funding round led by Binance with participation from Andreessen Horowitz, Dialectic, Paradigm, and Accel. The new capital was used to reimburse users for lost funds following a hack of the Ronin Bridge in March 2022 where 173,000 ETH and 25.5 million USDC tokens were drained.

Mythical Games is a video game studio building games based on blockchain technology, playable NFTs, and play-to-earn game economies. The company was developing two games—NFL Rivals and Blankos Block Party.Blankos Block Party is the company’s flagship game, launched in June 2022 as an early access edition for PCs only. The game is an open-world multiplayer game with a focus on custom art and design, building, and exploration. It is free to play, with the option for purchasable in-game cosmetics, accessories, and limited edition Blankos (NFT character).In May 2022, NFL and the NFL Players Association partnered with Mythical Games to develop an NFT-based video game NFL Rivals. The game was launched in 2023, with players taking part in arcade-style gameplay, assuming the role of NLF general manager. They can collect and trade players represented as NFTs on the secondary market via the iOS and Android apps, as well as Mythical’s web-based marketplace. In addition, a unique feature of the game is the “squad system,” which enables players to team up with fellow players to compete with others.Mythical Games also enables other game developers and publishers to build or integrate blockchain-based play-to-earn economies into their games through The Mythical Platform. The platform also includes built-in regulatory KYC/AML compliance and indemnity as well as a verified wallet for transacting both real and cryptocurrencies. Further, the company also offers a marketplace that enables users to sell and trade their digital assets.The Mythical Platform is built on an EVM-compatible sidechain Mythical Chain, which uses a proof-of-authority consensus mechanism to validate transactions. The chain also offers interoperability features, allowing players to transfer and trade NFTs across multiple blockchains. It also claims the minting of NFTs and integrating the marketplace over its platform does not require mining.It acquired <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/15966">DMarket </a>–a digital gaming asset marketplace–in January 2023, and utilized its technology to launch an improved version of its own marketplace (Mythical Marketplace 2.0), with features such as a blended payment gateway and AML and fraud protection systems.Key customers and partnershipsAs of June 2023, the company reported to have achieved daily gross sales exceeding USD 1 million and gained more than 2.5 million new users over the past year. Moreover, it expects to reach over 20 million player accounts across its entire game portfolio by the end of 2023, primarily propelled by NFL Rivals and the upcoming release of Nitro Nation World Tour.The Mythical Platform’s first developer partners were announced by the company in November 2021, which includes 1) CCG Games to create Epic Spell Wars: Magic Fight, a trading card game; 2) Creative Mobile to create Nitro Nation – World Tour, a racing game; and 3) Abstraction Games to create a new action strategy title. These were slated to be released in 2023.Funding and financialsIn November 2021, Mythical Games raised USD 150 million in a Series C round led by Andreessen Horowitz at a valuation of ~USD 1.3 billion. Additionally, it raised <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/19719">USD 37 million in a Series C1 </a>funding round led by Scytale Digital in June 2023, at a similar valuation. This funding round is expected to close later in 2023 and reach USD 57 million-67 million. It had planned to utilize the fresh funds toward initiatives that will drive profitability within the next year and expand its games and infrastructure to reach a larger audience.

Based in Australia, Immutable is a developer of blockchain-based video games and a provider of a Web3 game development platform. The company develops and publishes its games through Immutable Game Studio, and released its first game, Gods Unchained, in March 2021. The game is a NFT strategy card game, and had ~80,000 active players as of January 2022. It also claimed that over USD 25 million of Gods Unchained digital assets have been traded as of the same date. In February 2024, the company launched the mobile version of Gods Unchained, available on Google Play and Apple App Store.Its Web3 game development platform, Immutable X, provides a SDK that offers APIs and smart contracts to allow developers to leverage ready-made Web3 infrastructure to quickly build and deploy blockchain-based games. These include an onboarding solution (non-custodial wallet) called <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/16041">Passport </a>, transaction infrastructure, and NFT minting tools. The platform also consists of a developer hub which allows developers to launch and manage their projects in one-place and obtain related performance analytics.In addition, Immutable X also acts as a layer-2 scaling solution on the Ethereum blockchain. It uses <a href="https://sp-edge.com/companies/607497">StarkWare's </a>StarkEx roll-up technology and can process 9,000 transactions per second, with zero gas fees, while claiming to be carbon-neutral. Its native token IMX can be used to pay for transactions as well as stake and govern the network. Notable companies building on Immutable X include GameStop, TikTok, OpenSea, Ember Sword, Illuvium, GreenPark Sports, and Vee Friends (Gary Vee).Key customers and partnershipsImmutable partnered with Stepico, a video game developer to create Guild of Guardians, an action role-playing game. Stepico will develop the game, while Immutable will be responsible for publishing. The game was open for pre-registration, with over 150,000 users already signed up as of August 2022. The company also partnered with several game developers, such as Turner Sports and Kongregate, to build Web3 games on the Immutable X platform.The company collaborated with <a href="https://sp-edge.com/companies/786111">Polygon</a> to launch its <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/24881">zero-knowledge Ethereum Virtual Machine</a> (zkEVM) scaling solution to bypass the scaling limitations of the Ethereum blockchain and promote Web3 gaming. The network developers to completely abstract transaction fees that allow a frictionless player onboarding and improved user experience. Furthermore, Immutable partnered with <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/22566">Amazon Web Services (AWS)</a> to develop infrastructure solutions to assist companies in developing and scaling blockchain-based games, and <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/24637">Amazon Prime Gaming</a> to list in-game content for Gods Unchained in the latter’s platform. This partnership also aimed to introduce the game to a broader audience circle through Amazon's platform, which boasts over 200 million Prime Gaming members. It also collaborated with <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/25892">Axelar</a> to integrate games built on Immutable's zkEVM into the Axelar network to enhance user onboarding across blockchain.Funding and financialsIn March 2022, Immutable raised USD 200 million in a Series C funding round led by the Singapore state investment fund Temasek at a valuation of USD 2.5 billion. The company planned to use the funds for its gaming studio improvements, geographic expansion, and potential mergers and acquisitions. Immutable also planned to hire 200 new employees.

Giving creators the power of content monetization and audience engagement.

Creator Economy

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 Momento NFT claims to be the first direct-to-fan NFT social network that allows fans to own their favorite moments from content creators and is built on the Solana blockchain. The platform accepts any form of cryptocurrency as payment and does not require users to hold a separate crypto wallet. Memento NFT partners with prominent brands such as Floyd Mayweather’s racing team and TMT, and it plans to announce more partnerships with prominent creators from the NFL, WNBA, and NBA in the future.
 
 
 The social platform enables creators such as influencers, celebrities, athletes, and artists to connect and sell limited edition content to their communities in the form of NFTs. Fans that collect creators’ NFTs are eligible to receive rewards set by the creator, which could include things such as signed photos, meet and greets, and concert tickets.
 
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Helping employers provide personalized, high-touch, and holistic financial wellness tools to their entire workforce.

Financial Wellness Tools

SecureSave provides an emergency savings account (ESA) solution. By partnering with employers, SecureSave facilitates the addition of ESAs to benefits packages, allowing employees to track their savings progress and access funds in emergencies. The company claims that over half of invited employees have participated in these benefits offered by their employer and have been able to save USD 400 in four months, with this figure going up to USD 1,000 in a year.Key customers and partnershipsSecureSave serves companies in industries such as healthcare, manufacturing, and professional services with notable customers including 3R Technology, Filtec, and DemandZen.Funding and financialsIn June 2022, SecureSave raised USD 11 million in funding in a round led by Truist Ventures.

Democratizing financial technology with a suite of API-based solutions

FinTech Infrastructure

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 DriveWealth provides an API-based white-label infrastructure platform for FinTechs to access the US securities market and build FinTechs. The platform can be used by online stock brokers, digital advisors, and mobile online financial service companies to embed investment experiences on their mobile apps to serve retail investors. It runs on the company’s patent-pending “Fracker” technology, which is cloud-based and provides the ability to invest in real-time fractional shares on a dollar equivalent basis. 
 
 
 
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 As of May 2022, DriveWealth powered over 100 customers including Block, Revolut, GBM, and Navy Federal, which provided millions of retail investors in over 150 countries access to the US securities markets. It also partnered with Access Softek in 2020 to bring its offering to community banks and credit unions. 
 
 
 
 
 Drivewealth’s revenue and number of customers reportedly rose 100% YoY in 2021, as international business grew 140% YoY. The company has also expanded its senior management team with several C-level hires in April/May 2022, 
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Disrupting the traditional financial system using blockchain

Decentralized Finance (DeFi)

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 1inch offers decentralized protocols that are governed by the 1inch DAO that uses the native 1INCH token to vote for key protocol parameters. 1inch&rsquo;s protocol offerings include 1) 1inch Aggregation Protocol, which sources liquidity from a number of exchanges and can ensure better rates on trades by splitting a single transaction across multiple DEXes; 2) the 1inch Liquidity Protocol, which enables users to earn rewards and incentives by providing liquidity to pools and for participating in liquidity mining programs; and 3) 1inch Limit Order Protocol, a protocol for users to trade using limit orders that are programmed by smart contracts without the need to pay fees.&nbsp;
 
 
 
 
 Additionally, the platform also offers a DeFi wallet in the form of a smartphone application for storing a number of digital assets. As of December 2021, the platform served over 900,000 users with a total transaction volume of more than USD 115 billion. In July 2023, the company launched the beta version of &ldquo;1inch Labs,&rdquo; a developer portal that provides APIs for building cloud-based dApps.
 
 
 
 
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 In December 2021, the 1inch Network raised USD 175 million in Series B funding led by Amber Group with participation from over 50 additional investors at a valuation of USD 2.25 billion. The fundraising was carried out via a sale of 1INCH tokens at a flat rate from the project&rsquo;s ecosystem development fund. 1inch also announced plans to release a protocol insurance product in 2022 as well as begin a series of trials offering DeFi services to legacy financial institutions.
 
 
 
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Embedding environmental, social, and corporate governance factors into investments

Sustainable Finance

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 Circle provides an online platform that enables users to send money quickly and easily. Circle uses blockchain technology with Circle Pay to ease and improve how users send money. Circle expands its services with a crypto-currency investment product with Circle Invest, enabling anyone to buy and sell crypto assets. It provides crypto-coins andoffer OTC trading services via Circle Trade. Its crypto-trading desk provides one of the largest global liquidity pools for digital asset trading and averages $2 billion in monthly volume.
 Jeremy Allaire and Sean Neville founded Circle in 2013. $140 million from investors including Jim Breyer (Facebook), Goldman Sachs, IDG Capital (Baidu, Tencent), General Catalyst (AirBnB, Snapchat) and Accel Partners backs the company, with its headquarters in Boston, and branches in New York, San Francisco, Dublin, London, and Hong Kong.
 
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Cryptocurrencies

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 Circle provides an online platform that enables users to send money quickly and easily. Circle uses blockchain technology with Circle Pay to ease and improve how users send money.
 
 
 Circle expands its services with a crypto-currency investment product with Circle Invest, enabling anyone to buy and sell crypto assets. It provides crypto-coins and offer OTC trading services via Circle Trade. Its crypto-trading desk provides one of the largest global liquidity pools for digital asset trading and averages $2 billion in monthly volume.
 
 
 Jeremy Allaire and Sean Neville founded Circle in 2013. $140 million from investors including Jim Breyer (Facebook), Goldman Sachs, IDG Capital (Baidu, Tencent), General Catalyst (AirBnB, Snapchat) and Accel Partners backs the company, with its headquarters in Boston, and branches in New York, San Francisco, Dublin, London, and Hong Kong.
 
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Bringing the benefits of blockchain to the enterprise

Enterprise Blockchain Solutions

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 Kwil is an enterprise blockchain company that has developed a permissionless SQL database aimed at supporting the decentralized internet. This database is intended to facilitate data storage and retrieval for applications and platforms that are part of the Web3 ecosystem, including decentralized applications (dApps). Kwil's architecture is designed for scalability, ensuring that the database can handle the growth of an application. For developers looking to deploy databases, Kwil provides an in-browser tool called &ldquo;Kuneiform IDE,&rdquo; which enables the definition and deployment of databases. Additionally, Kwil enables projects to set data access permissions and has a feature that allows data sets to be accessed through the use of native tokens. The emphasis on scalability and the ability to set permissions are key aspects for enterprise clients.
 
 
 Businesses can utilize Kwil's products in various ways. For instance, data providers can use Kwil to ensure that the data they deliver to clients is authentic and available while also maintaining an on-chain record of all modifications made to their databases. Researchers can use Kwil to segment data visibility, allowing them to share public data without permission and protect private data. Developers can also incorporate social graph data into their applications to create frictionless, cross-platform user experiences. Furthermore, Kwil's databases are easily migratable from centralized systems, facilitating a swift transition to a decentralized protocol​.
 
 
 Key customers and partnerships
 
 
 In November 2022, Kwil partnered with BlockVision, a multi-chain Node, Mempool, FT, NFT, and DeFi API provider. The partnership was intended to leverage Kwil's knowledge and expertise to help BlockVision decentralize its structured data storage, ensuring that users can retrieve data from decentralized, scalable, and highly available SQL databases​.
 
 
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 Kwil raised USD 8.9 million in seed funding in October 2022, co-led by FTX Ventures and Blockchange Ventures. The proceeds were used for the expansion of the engineering team and product development. 
 
 
 
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Sports Tech

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 PlayUp is an online-only Sports Betting and Fantasy Sports Company that owns its own proprietary wagering and fantasy platform and operates its in-house risk and trading team. The PlayUp Group offers legal products in Australia, New Zealand, India and the USA. It has many differentiating products such as Horseracing Products (fixed and pari mutual odds), eSports Betting and Fantasy on Horseracing and even eSports. They company serves as a one-stop-shop for sports fans.
 
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Kwil is a decentralized, community-owned SQL database solution for building advanced dApps and protocols. Kwil brings together the robust capabilities of existing databases with the permissionless nature of blockchains, extending the promises of Web3 to more intricate, data-intensive applications. Kwil provides the infrastructure to power data storage and retrieval for the next generation of Web3-enabled applications.

Limit Break is a blockchain game company. Limit Break are bringing the free-to-play gaming experience to Web3 and beyond. they  were founded by international pioneers in the mobile gaming business.

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

SecureSave provides a purpose-built emergency savings solution. Emergency savings are the foundation of financial wellness. Help your employees get started. Make an immediate impact on your team for a fraction of the cost of other workplace savings programs.

Swim provides a simple way to transfer tokens across chains via multi-token liquidity pools and Solana's Wormhole. No more delays, centralized bridges, or wrapped assets.

PlayUp is an online-only Sports Betting and Fantasy Sports Company that owns its own proprietary wagering and fantasy platform and operates its in-house risk and trading team. The PlayUp Group offers legal products in Australia, New Zealand, India and the USA. It has many differentiating products such as Horseracing Products (fixed and pari mutual odds), eSports Betting and Fantasy on Horseracing and even eSports. They company serves as a one-stop-shop for sports fans.

AMINA Bank is a cryptocurrency company that provides a seamless, secure, and easy-to-use bridge between digital and traditional assets. Its services allow customers to secure, trade, and manage cryptocurrencies, digital assets, and conventional securities all in one place. It also allows customers and clients to have access to convenient and transparent investment solutions for their crypto and traditional assets. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Zug, Zug, Switzerland.

Web3Auth makes cryptographic key management easy for users and applications. By abstracting the management of private keys, they allow users to use familiar authentication methods like Google, Facebook, or Passwordless logins on Web3 applications. Their vision is to empower individuals with self-sovereignty by making key management globally accessible to everyone.

Momento NFT is a direct-to-fan non-fungible-token (NFT) social network that is used for a single purpose to provide content creators the opportunity and ability to monetize their work and ensure their fans are able to own a piece of the moments they create.

BetDEX is the decentralized sports betting protocol. BetDEX delivers high speeds and low transaction costs while eliminating counterparty risk. BetDEX is a permissionless protocol allowing anyone to build their own applications on top.

Mythical is a next-generation game technology studio. Mythical Games believes that true ownership of digital assets, verifiable scarcity, and integrated secondary markets will spawn a new generation of games. These new economies, based on digital ownership, will bring players, developers, and content creators closer to the games they love. Mythical Games has a  team of veteran game and platform developers with a passion for bringing big innovative concepts to market. Its goal is to create world-class products that drive consumer adoption of distributed ledger technology through games.

Faraway makes hyper-social blockchain games with player-driven economies. The company was founded in 2021 and is based in Miami, Florida.

Chipper Cash is a financial services company that features a software application platform that enables free instant cross-border mobile money transfers in Africa as easy as sending a text message.  The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Sky Mavis is a technology company that creates decentralized applications and services. They specialize in the fields of information technology, blockchain, video game, and more.

Fundlr specializes in providing decentralized finance solutions that empower individuals and businesses to manage their financial assets on blockchain technology. Our services include decentralized lending and borrowing, yield farming, liquidity provision, and innovative investment strategies through DeFi protocols. Fundlr aims to be at the forefront of the DeFi movement, driving innovation in decentralized financial services. Our focus is on expanding our offerings with more blockchain integrations, enhancing user experience, and leading in regulatory compliance in the DeFi space. We envision a future where decentralized finance is the norm, providing greater financial inclusion and democratizing access to investment opportunities.

GDA is one of the world's largest bitcoin mining companies in terms of hash rate. The GDA founders have over ten years of experience in the bitcoin mining industry and the company currently operates 19 industrial-scale data centers across North America, Europe, and Central Asia. With a total power capacity of over 400 MW, the company has brought over 120,000 miners online. GDA was  included in the Fortune Crypto 40 list as the only bitcoin miner.

Liquid Global is a developer of a cryptocurrency trading platform designed to provide liquidity to the crypto economy.The company's platform offers trading services for major cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum against fiat currency pairs in Japanese yen, US, Singapore and Australian dollar and Euro among the others, enabling businesses and users to exchange cryptocurrencies in a hassle-free manner.

DriveWealth, the global fintech investment rail and pioneer of fractional equities trading, is a visionary technology company that empowers more than 100 partners around the world to engage their customers by placing the markets in the palm of their hands. We believe the future is fractional, transactional, and mobile. Every mobile device should be a gateway to accessing investing and savings products, services, advice, and assistance for global citizens of all ages, wealth stages, and levels of financial expertise. DriveWealth’s consultative support and cloud based, modern technology platform allow partners to seamlessly offer branded investing experiences to drive customer acquisition, loyalty, retention, and revenue growth.

Circle is a financial technology firm that utilizes stablecoins for payments and e-commerce. Circle uses blockchain technology with Circle Pay to ease and improve how users send money. Circle expands its services with a crypto-currency investment product with Circle Invest, enabling anyone to buy and sell crypto assets. It provides crypto-coins and offers OTC trading services via Circle Trade. Its crypto-trading desk provides one of the largest global liquidity pools for digital asset trading and averages $2 billion in monthly volume. Jeremy Allaire and Sean Neville founded Circle in 2013. $140 million from investors including Jim Breyer (Facebook), Goldman Sachs, IDG Capital (Baidu, Tencent), General Catalyst (AirBnB, Snapchat) and Accel Partners backs the company, with its headquarters in Boston, and branches in New York, San Francisco, Dublin, London, and Hong Kong.

Solidus Labs is an information technology company that provides a machine learning-powered trade surveillance and transaction monitoring infrastructure tailored for digital assets. It features a SaaS web-based dashboard, that enables its clients to detect, investigate, and address suspicious activity in blockchain-based asset trading. The company was founded in 2017 and headquartered in New York, United States.

Protego Trust Bank is a financial service company that offers regulated crypto services to institutional investors. The company provides clients comprehensive digital asset services including custody, trading, lending, and issuance - all within one vertically integrated partner. Protego Trush Bank was founded in 2017 and is based in Seattle, WA.

Immutable develops blockchain-based eSport games designed to familiarize users with blockchain technology in a fun and user-friendly environment. Its eSports games use ethereum blockchain to transform digital asset ownership in the video-gaming industry. Immutable provides scalable blockchain infrastructure for video games, enabling organizations to bring transparency in the opaque world of in-game economies.

Oin Finance is a Defi company building liquidity pool lending platforms on the Ontology blockchain with cross-chain functionality.

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1inch Limited is the prevalent contributor to 1inch Network. It develops the software, supports it, develops new features for 1inch Network. 1inch Limited works on supporting and improving the Pathfinder – the basis of the Aggregation Protocol and 1inch Network – as a software development company. The API to the Pathfinder is licensed and sold to external parties for commercial purposes under the API License Agreements. 1inch Limited also provides the PMM Integration Services, namely the services of integration of the third-party’s API to provide access to the third-party liquidity so that it is discoverable by Pathfinder. 1inch Wallet is a mobile app available in various application stores. Front-end and back-end of the app are developed and run by 1inch Limited.

FTX Exchange is a cryptocurrency exchange company that develops a platform for professional trading firms. They strive to build a platform suitable for professional trading firms and intuitive enough for first-time users. FTX supports quarterly and perpetual futures for all cryptocurrencies, leveraged tokens, and OTC. FTX was incubated by Alameda Research, a top cryptocurrency liquidity provider. Because of this, FTX has had industry order books from day one.

<div> Based in the Bahamas, FTX is a cryptocurrency exchange, which in addition to allowing users to buy and trade cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin and Ethereum, also offers the ability to trade tokenized securities and crypto-based derivatives. FTX served over one million users as of July 2021 and reported an average daily trading volume of USD 14 billion as of October 2021. The company applied to form a limited purpose trust company via a trust charter with the New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) which will enable it to offer its products and services within the state. Through its marketplace, FTX offers access to tokenized securities from a wide range of listed companies such as Apple, Google, Facebook, and Tesla, among others. Investors in these tokenized stocks will also be entitled to any dividends and can participate in any corporate actions initiated by the underlying company. FTX&rsquo;s marketplace also supports the trading of DeFi tokens like Dai, Aave, and Compound. The company also began testing a stock trading feature in their platform in May 2022, which provides users the ability to fund their account using the stablecoin USDC. In August 2021, the company announced the acquisition of crypto derivatives company LedgerX in a bid to secure the licenses required to pave the way for FTX to start offering crypto derivatives.&nbsp; In November 2022, the company declared bankruptcy and is no longer operational. </div>

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