Marijan Polić

Investor in blockchain startups

📍 Croatia, Croatia🔄 Updated September 2026💼 79 investments📅 9 years investing🗓 Last invested Jul 2020
Angel investor🌍 Croatia50+ investments
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Jul 2020
Existing internet protocols leak sensitive data that can be used without users knowledge — Nym is developing the infrastructure to prevent this data leakage by protecting every packet’s metadata at the network and application layers.
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Jul 2020
The warp-speed protocol for inter-blockchain swaps, allowing DeFi users to easily move assets between blockchains without the need for a trusted party.
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Jul 2020
StakerDAO is the cross-chain asset factory, enabling the vibrant future of decentralized finance. By the community. For the community. The StakerDAO governance is run by a community of blockchain and finance enthusiasts who govern decisions for building cross-chain, decentralized financial assets in a compliant manner. Today the community is focused on building cross-chain Index products, wrapped products, and bridges between blockchains. The StakerDAO ecosystem includes three main elements - Staker Advisory, STKR token holder Community, and Staker Development Teams. Proposals for new products or changes to existing products originate in the StakerDAO forums by the community. The Staker Advisory Members are individuals or organizations that are qualified to submit proposals to Staker governance. STKR token holders are responsible for voting on StakerDAO proposals. Staker Development Teams are incentivized by the community to develop and execute StakerDAO products. STKR is the community-owned governance token used to govern StakerDAO. Staker Advisory Members can submit proposals to move StakerDAO forward. All STKR token holders can vote on proposals, and proposals that reach a quorum of yes votes are approved. Approved proposals are built and deployed by incentivized community members.
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May 2020
Arweave uberizes the traditional web hosting environment, connecting people with spare hard drive space with people that need web hosting. This system offers unparalleled levels of data replication and security for users, as well as financial incentives for participants in the network. Arweave has set the new standard of highly reliable, lightning fast web application hosting at a fraction of the cost of traditional centralised providers. In April 2018, Arweave graduated from the mentorship-driven startup acceleration program at Techstars Berlin. After raising $8.7 million through token sales, Arweave launched its mainnet in June 2018. In January 2019, we launched the permaweb, a permanent serverless web built on top of the Arweave. This is the web you can own and run. Visit our website to learn how you can use Arweave to deploy web apps, archive web pages, mine and much more!
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Jul 2019
Marlin Protocol is   a global, open infrastructure for high-performance decentralized networks, powered by a bandwidth sharing marketplace.
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Jul 2019
At Kava Labs, were redefining the boundaries of the Web 3.0 and DeFi landscapes by transforming the industry with our top-tier outsourced service solutions.
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Apr 2019
Polygon Labs is a global blockchain payments company building and operating infrastructure to move money instantly, reliably, and at internet scale, with the mission to move all money onchain. We are building the Polygon Open Money Stack, an open and integrated stack of services and technologies to instantly and reliably move money anywhere, and put it to work. Our infrastructure has facilitated trillions of dollars in onchain value transfer and supported millions of transactions daily for some of the globes largest banks, fintechs, enterprises, and consumer applications.
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Mar 2019
Lition Technology was a blockchain company that developed a deletable blockchain. It was founded in 2018 and sold to Tomochain in October 2020. It was then closed down in March 2021.
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Mar 2019
Lition Technology was a blockchain company that developed a deletable blockchain. It was founded in 2018 and sold to Tomochain in October 2020. It was then closed down in March 2021.
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Feb 2019
Fetch.ai is a decentralized network built to power autonomous AI agents that can discover, connect, collaborate, and transact with other agents seamlessly. The Fetch.ai ecosystem enables developers and users alike to build intelligent, self-operating systems that interact across the digital and real world. At the core of the platform are three integrated products: ASI:One: A family of agentic LLMs that interact with agents from Agentverse to expand their capabilities and perform real-world reasoning. ASI:One includes models like asi1-mini for fast, operational tasks and asi1-extended for deeper, complex reasoning. These models communicate via multi-agent protocols and scale by invoking services from the broader agent network. Agentverse: A developer platform designed for full control and extensibility. Built on the uAgents framework, Agentverse allows developers to create, host, and register agents that are interoperable across the Fetch.ai ecosystem. It provides built-in support for agent-to-agent messaging, payments, discovery, and deep ASI:One integration. Flockx: A no-code agent studio that lets users create personal or business agents without writing code. Flockx offers consumer-facing simplicity, and includes a professional Workbench for small businesses and teams looking to operationalize agent-based workflows. Agents created via Flockx are automatically indexed by ASI:One and published to Agentverse. Together, these components form a composable AI layer where intelligent agents can operate autonomously, reason with large models, and plug into business workflows, decentralized apps, and real-world systems.
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Feb 2019
Binance is the world’s leading blockchain ecosystem and cryptocurrency infrastructure provider with a product suite that includes the worlds largest digital asset exchange and much more. Trusted by over 200 millions of users worldwide, the Binance platform is dedicated to increasing the freedom of money for users, and features an unmatched portfolio of crypto products and offerings, including: trading and finance, education, data and research, social good, investment and incubation, decentralization and infrastructure solutions, and more. Posts are not directed towards UK users.
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Oct 2018
From Aergo to HPP. AI-ready Layer 2 for agents, data, and decentralized infrastructure. Composable. Verifiable. Live on testnet.
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Oct 2018
Over the past few years, it’s been impossible not to notice that crypto has been on the rise. And yet, the people benefitting from crypto are overwhelming those who are already doing pretty well for themselves. What’s more: the most recognizable cryptocurrency is consuming massive amounts of energy at a time when we’re in the grips of a climate crisis. But we say, enough is enough. It’s time to bring crypto and DeFi to the masses—without damaging the environment. At Spacemesh, our mission is to build a layer-one crypto protocol with a resource that many ordinary people already have: unused computer storage space. Our protocol is also race-free, meaning that everybody gets their fair share of mining rewards. Low barrier to entry and proportional rewards means that nobody will ever be priced out, keeping coin distribution fair and ensuring decentralization. This way, we’ll bring crypto to the masses.
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Oct 2018
Blockchain-based Advanced TCP/IP. Blockcloud aims to reinvent the roads on which modern applications drive on. It is a blockchain-based advanced TCP/IP that improves and upgrades the existing Internet. Combining the advantages of blockchain and Future Internet technology, it reconstructs the technology layers below where current blockchain networks and Internet applications operate. Blockcloud serves as the “building block” to provide constant connectivity for dynamic networks. It will provide better mobility, credibility, incentives, security, fairness, and scalability to upper-layer applications. The team members are from Princeton, Tsinghua, Peking University, and Huawei, Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent, etc. The team participated in the development of the first international standards for the next-generation Internet in China, have published more than 50 papers in international top academic conferences and periodicals which have been cited more than 300 times worldwide, and have applied for more than 80 patents. In the field of smart home and wear, we have established a leading company which has raised more than 40 million CNY and has served 5 million end users. For more information: Facebook: Blockcloud Twitter: https://twitter.com/BlockcloudTeam Telegram: Official Community: https://t.me/BlockcloudTeam Global Roadshow&Meetup: https://t.me/BlockcloudMeetup_Global
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Sep 2018
Nash wants to bring modern finance to the many. But along with the potential of cryptocurrency, we also saw the issues: it’s difficult to navigate and it’s easy to lose funds left on insecure exchanges. We wanted to solve that. So we built a one-of-a-kind decentralized exchange. This technical tour-de-force combined the performance of centralized exchanges with top-level security. Off to a good start. But for the real revolution to happen, we needed more. We needed an everyday product for everyone – and everything. We’re talking shopping-to-salary-to-crypto-savings-everything: all things money in one easy-to-use app, secured by the same technology behind our exchange. So we built it. For you. And for everyone. Welcome to the new everyday. Get the app: https://nashio.app.link/PTQB78PWrqb Join our Telegram: t.me/nashsocial
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Jul 2020
Existing internet protocols leak sensitive data that can be used without users knowledge — Nym is developing the infrastructure to prevent this data leakage by protecting every packet’s metadata at the network and application layers.
Investor
Jul 2020
The warp-speed protocol for inter-blockchain swaps, allowing DeFi users to easily move assets between blockchains without the need for a trusted party.
Stafi
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Jul 2020
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Jul 2020
StakerDAO is the cross-chain asset factory, enabling the vibrant future of decentralized finance. By the community. For the community. The StakerDAO governance is run by a community of blockchain and finance enthusiasts who govern decisions for building cross-chain, decentralized financial assets in a compliant manner. Today the community is focused on building cross-chain Index products, wrapped products, and bridges between blockchains. The StakerDAO ecosystem includes three main elements - Staker Advisory, STKR token holder Community, and Staker Development Teams. Proposals for new products or changes to existing products originate in the StakerDAO forums by the community. The Staker Advisory Members are individuals or organizations that are qualified to submit proposals to Staker governance. STKR token holders are responsible for voting on StakerDAO proposals. Staker Development Teams are incentivized by the community to develop and execute StakerDAO products. STKR is the community-owned governance token used to govern StakerDAO. Staker Advisory Members can submit proposals to move StakerDAO forward. All STKR token holders can vote on proposals, and proposals that reach a quorum of yes votes are approved. Approved proposals are built and deployed by incentivized community members.
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May 2020
Arweave uberizes the traditional web hosting environment, connecting people with spare hard drive space with people that need web hosting. This system offers unparalleled levels of data replication and security for users, as well as financial incentives for participants in the network. Arweave has set the new standard of highly reliable, lightning fast web application hosting at a fraction of the cost of traditional centralised providers. In April 2018, Arweave graduated from the mentorship-driven startup acceleration program at Techstars Berlin. After raising $8.7 million through token sales, Arweave launched its mainnet in June 2018. In January 2019, we launched the permaweb, a permanent serverless web built on top of the Arweave. This is the web you can own and run. Visit our website to learn how you can use Arweave to deploy web apps, archive web pages, mine and much more!
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