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Seed Investor
Jul 2023
The first extensible Layer1 blockchain with parallel execution and modular VMs. EVM++
Seed Investor
Nov 2022
The Chain Abstraction Provider: Single integration that enables chain abstraction on any wallet, application, or developer tool.
Investor
Jan 2022
Backstage Capital is a venture capital fund investing in the best startups led by underrepresented founders in the U.S.
Seed Investor
Dec 2021
OORT is the trailblazer in the decentralized AI era, offering a trustless infrastructure built for the future of AI. Powered by the Olympus protocol, OORT provides enterprises and individuals with a suite of decentralized AI products and solutions focused on three core areas: OORT Storage, OORT DataHub (B2C, B2B), and OORT Compute (coming soon). OORT has raised $10 million from prominent investors to date, including Taisu Venture, Red Beard Venture, Sanctor Capital, and has received grants from Microsoft and Google.
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Nov 2021
Kraken helps people own the power of their money. Founded in 2011, were one of the worlds longest-standing crypto platforms, now offering crypto, stocks, futures, staking, payments and more. Trusted by millions of institutions, professional traders, and consumers across 190+ countries.
Built on the belief that everyone should own the power of their money, Kraken has been a category leader in crypto since 2011. Weve grown into a global financial platform offering crypto, stocks, futures, staking, payments and institutional infrastructure โ all on a single foundation built for the future of finance.
Our product lineup:
โ Kraken: the worlds leading hybrid investment platform, built for the future of finance from the ground up
โ Kraken Pro: the all-in command center that unleashes your trading potential
โ Krak: the next-generation money platform that turns every type of asset into usable money
Proof of Reserves since 2014. Assets held 1:1. Trusted by 13M+ people, thousands of institutions, and a growing community of developers building on Kraken rails.
Our mission: accelerate the global adoption of crypto so everyone can achieve financial freedom and inclusion.
Risk Disclosure: https://www.kraken.com/en-ca/social-media-disclosure
Investor
Sep 2021
PUML Better Health is a Corporate Wellness Challenge platform. Motivate, engage and reward your employees, members and customers with the most advanced innovative health and wellbeing platform ever created.
Easily implement and run gamified challenges that are fun and that help create health habits. Run step challenges, sleep challenges, meditation, hydration, heart rate, gym check-ins are more. Educate, Engage, Reward and improve the happiness and health of you and your team.
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Aug 2021
Jane West is a global cannabis and smokewear brand, designed by flower lovers and made for everyone. Est. 2013.
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Aug 2021
We are building the future of gaming.
Immutable is advancing the future of gaming through Immutable Play Platform, the leading platform for discovering and engaging with games, Immutable Audience Builder, supporting the successful growth and launch of leading game studios, and the Immutable Passport, a global gaming wallet with over 6 million users.
Join the fastest growing gaming chain and help shape the future of gaming. Be part of the team powering the future of gaming and digital ownership - for everyone. Embrace the extraordinary.
Seed Investor
Dec 2020
An innovative provider of customizable prime brokerage technology solutions for financial institutions
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Dec 2020
We build the most engaging community hubs worldwide by adopting Web3 and blockchain technologies. We help sports, media and entertainment brands open untapped revenue streams by digitalising their relationships with fans and bringing new levels of engagement.
Seed Investor
Nov 2020
Flare is a powerful new blockchain with the first consensus protocol for external data. Decentralized applications on Flare can therefore trustlessly acquire and use information from other blockchains and real world data sources, solving the oracle problem and opening the door to a new era of utility. This means secure decentralized bridging, full cross-chain composability with assets and information able to flow freely between all chains, and seamless decentralized integration of Web2 data in Web3 dapps.
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Nov 2020
Substrata optimizes B2B sales and high-ticket dealmaking by analyzing multiple communication layers: verbal, nonverbal, and contextual, in deal-related interactions. The platform continuously assesses the dealmakers position at every stage, providing impactful, data driven guidance that significantly boosts win rates, shortens sales cycles, and enhances overall goal and quota attainment.
Powered by deep-learning social signal processing technology, Substrata is the ultimate dealmaking assistant. It equips dealmakers with transformative insights into the hidden dynamics between sellers and prospects, from mutual social status appraisals and prospect-side perceptions of seller competence to nuanced evaluations of relevancy, scarcity, urgency, consistency, and more.
Taking it a step further, Substrata recommends optimal deal-closing tactics tailored to specific market categories, target audiences, perceived solution value, relationship history, deal momentum, and additional contextual factors.
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Nov 2011
Q-Bank Group is an independent private investment and asset management firm with a focus on delivering value through applied technology. Our founders have completed more than USD 1 billion of transactions globally in the industries we cover. Through our operating companies we collaborate with leading research institutions such as MIT, Oxford, Harvard and others to identify and create novel technologies that leverage our existing patent portfolio and offer exposure to hyper-growth markets.
Our private equity business is focused on direct investments and managed co-investments for strategic limited partners.
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Seed Investor
Jul 2023
The first extensible Layer1 blockchain with parallel execution and modular VMs. EVM++
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Dec 2022
Aves Lair is a global venture capital and venture operator founded in 2020.
We started our journey as a technology hub and co-working space in 2018. Through years of experience in early-stage investing and community building, we gradually evolved into a marketplace of ideas, talent, and capital.
As both venture capitalists and operators today, We partner with technical founders beyond capital allocation. We leverage our network to provide strategic, technical and business development solutions to help the companies in our portfolio achieve product market fit in rapidly evolving industries.
Seed Investor
Nov 2022
The Chain Abstraction Provider: Single integration that enables chain abstraction on any wallet, application, or developer tool.
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