Merit Circle is an ever-evolving digital ecosystem built by a global community to power the future of gaming. With a strong foundation in the web3 space, Merit Circle aims to integrate the endless possibilities of blockchain technology with cutting-edge games to create the next generation of immersive gaming experiences by investing capital in promising games.

Merit Circle

United States of America

Arrington Capital is a thesis-focused digital asset and Web3 investing firm. Since 2017, Arrington Capital has invested in over 200 early-stage companies in the crypto ecosystem. Arrington Capital's crypto-native team of seasoned entrepreneurs, founders, and executives is committed to doubling down on efforts to ensure our partners' success.

Arrington Capital

Big Brain Holdings Invests in Seed, Pre-Seed and Early Stage Startups

Big Brain Holdings

OP Crypto is a venture capital firm that supports early-stage startups in the new digital assets economy.

OP Crypto

Fyde

C² Ventures is an investment firm that builds and invests in Web3 companies

C2Ventures (Csquared)

ABCDE Capital

Surf Protocol

Hong Kong

HashKey Capital is a blockchain and cryptocurrency-focused venture capital and investment firm based in Hong Kong. They specialize in funding and supporting early-stage blockchain and cryptocurrency projects, startups, and companies.

HashKey Capital

Singapore

SevenX Ventures provides insights and operational expertise to help blockchain startups in growing.

SevenX Ventures

Folius Ventures invests, popularizes, and participates in the construction of the Web3 ecosystem.

Folius Ventures

INCE Capital

MyShell

Balaji S. Srinivasan is the CTO of Coinbase and cofounder of Counsyl, Earn, Teleport, and Coin Center. He was previously CEO at Earn.com, which was recently sold to Coinbase. Prior to taking the CEO role at Earn.com, Dr. Srinivasan was a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. Prior to joining a16z, he was the cofounder and CTO of FoundersFund-backed Counsyl, where he won the Wall Street Journal Innovation Award for Medicine and was named to the MIT TR35. Dr. Srinivasan holds a BS, MS, and PhD in Electrical Engineering and an MS in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University. He also teaches the occasional class at Stanford, including an online MOOC in 2013 which reached 250,000+ students worldwide.

Balaji Srinivasan

Malta

YZi Labs is an investment firm formerly known as Binance Labs that invests in all stages of development in the fields of Web3, artificial intelligence (AI), and biotechnology.

YZi Labs (prev Binance Labs)

Dragonfly Capital Partners, commonly referred to as Dragonfly Capital, is a venture capital firm that focuses on investments in the blockchain and cryptocurrency space. Dragonfly Capital is known for its active involvement in the blockchain and crypto industry and its commitment to supporting innovative projects and companies.

Dragonfly Capital

OKX Ventures is a fund focused on exploring high-quality and promising projects, with an initial capital of $100 million.

OKX Ventures

Bankless

Delphi Ventures was founded over 25 years ago as one of the first venture capital firms to focus on investing in life sciences companies.

Delphi Ventures

Nascent is a team of builders who back early-stage crypto founders creating products and primitives for an open financial world.

Nascent

Santiago Roel Santos is the Partner at ParaFi Capital

Santiago Roel Santos

Casey K. Caruso

Netherlands

Venture Capital Fund in Blockchain & Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT)

Maven 11 Capital

Illia Polosukhin is a Co-Founder at NEAR.

Illia Polosukhin

Nomad Capital

GSR Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on early-stage technology companies developing AI-enabled enterprise software, consumer platforms, and healthcare technology.

GSR Ventures

LongHash Ventures is a global blockchain accelerator and VC fund.

LongHash Ventures

Animoca Brands is a global digital entertainment company that specializes in the development and publishing of mobile games, blockchain-based games, and non-fungible tokens (NFTs). They are known for creating and publishing a wide range of popular games, including licensed intellectual properties such as Formula 1, Doraemon, and MotoGP. Animoca Brands is also heavily involved in the blockchain gaming space, leveraging the benefits of blockchain technology and NFTs to create unique gaming experiences.

Animoca Brands

Arcane Group is a global venture capital unlocking the potential of Web3.

Arcane Group

Cayman Islands

ArkStream Capital is a crypto fund dedicated to growing Web3.0 unicorns.

ArkStream Capital

Particle Network

United Arab Emirates

Morningstar Ventures is an investment firm focused on digital assets and blockchain technology.

Morningstar Ventures

gumi Cryptos Capital is a blockchain and cryptographic asset fund that invests in the crypto native stack from L1 to the application layer, as well as in traditional businesses supporting the ecosystem.

gumi Cryptos Capital

The Spartan Group primarily focuses on investments in digital assets, cryptocurrencies, and blockchain-related projects. They actively manage a portfolio of various cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin and Ethereum, as well as other tokens and blockchain assets.

The Spartan Group

China

SNZ Holding is a crypto fund founded by a group of engineers, blockchain evangelists and entrepreneurs passionate about disruptive blockchain technologies.

SNZ Holding

MH Ventures is a world-class community-backed venture capital investing in top blockchain projects of the future.

MH Ventures

UOB Venture Management

Flow Traders

7 O'Clock Capital

Insignia Ventures Partners

A decentralized social protocol returning data ownership back to users and helping devs build meaningful social dapps.

CyberConnect

Bitcoke

United Kingdom

Financial Services Capital Partners

Monad

Chapter One Ventures

BitMex

FalconX

Elixir

Hack VC is a web3 venture capital firm. Hack VC partners with online and offline hackers who are building the future of the internet.

Hack VC

Amber Group is a one-stop crypto finance service provider that provides liquidity provision, trading and asset management services 24/7.

Amber Group

Manifold Trading is a early-stage web3 fund that takes a data-driven, systematic approach to making high-conviction investments.

Manifold Trading

NGC Ventures is one of the largest institutional investors of blockchain technologies, and has been a key contributor to a number of leading projects.

NGC Ventures

Arthur Hayes, Co-Founder of BitMEX & CIO of Maelstromfund.

Arthur Hayes

Managed by the family office of Arthur Hayes (co-founder, BitMEX), Maelstrom is building a long-term portfolio of infrastructure companies that will serve as the foundation of the next wave of trustless decentralization.

Maelstrom

AngelList is a U.S. website for startups, angel investors, and job-seekers looking to work at startups.

AngelList

Bloccelerate VC is a venture fund backing bold entrepreneurs building category defining companies using the power of blockchain.

Bloccelerate

GSR, founded in 2013, is a global leader in digital asset trading and market making.
GSR is a crypto market maker and ecosystem partner

GSR Markets (GSR)

Mysten Labs

Flowdesk

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

Distributed Global

AU21 Capital was founded by Chandler Guo and Kenzi Wang in 2017 with the mission of backing the most promising blockchain entrepreneurs, and providing founders with resources and connections to succeed.

AU21 Capital

The SALT Fund

Nillion

Meltem Demirors

Ansem

Sfermion is a multi-strategy investment firm focused on the immersive internet. Sfermion's mission is to accelerate the emergence of the metaverse by investing in the companies and founders who are shaping our digital future.

Sfermion

Mechanism Capital is an investment firm that invests in the cryptocurrency industry with a focus on decentralized finance or DeFi.

Mechanism Capital

Genblock Capital invests exclusively in blockchain and cryptocurrency, with a focus on decentralized finance.

Genblock Capital

SkyVision Capital was founded to accelerate the development of new, open source, decentralized technologies. SkyVision Capital is a private investment family office that incubates and invests in the founders of tomorrow today.

SkyVision Capital

Colombia

Lattice Capital helps portfolio grow by providing structure & experience to the small business development through incubation & investment.

Lattice Capital

Thailand

GuildFi

Gemini Funds provides a range of pooled investment solutions in the United States.

Gemini Funds

Sparkle Ventures

OpenSea Ventures

Daedalus

reNFT

MetaCartel Ventures is a decentralized autonomous organization that will invest in the Ethereum ecosystem.

MetaCartel Ventures

Scalar Capital provides fund management and advisory services.

Scalar Capital

Play Ventures is a venture funding that invests globally in games and game services startups.

Play Ventures

Entrepreneur, Founder, Investor.

My background includes broad and diverse experience across various areas of corporate finance, investments, banking and strategy roles.

I have developed a strong global finance experience through international assignments in the US, Brazil, Panama, Afghanistan, Southeast Asia, Czech Republic and through the awardof my Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) certification.
Lately I've been more involved more of an entrepreneurial capacity, helping create, scale and lead fintech startups ITF & TDAX.

Ben Lakoff

Sebastien Borget is the Co-founder and COO of Pixowl. Passionate for blockchain technology, gaming and education, he is a very active speaker and evangelist who spent the past 8 years focused exclusively on mobile gaming, creating successful games that were downloaded millions of times.

Sebastien Borget

Philippines

Gabby Dizon is the Chairman and co-founder of Alto.io, a Singapore-based game platform that connects games to the blockchain. He helped pioneer the Philippine game industry as part of the team that released the first Filipino-made game in 2003. Gabby is also CEO of game developer Altitude Games and former President of the Game DevelopersAssociation of the Philippines. Gabby helps champion the game development industry in Southeast Asia and is an active member of the Philippine startup community.

Gabby Dizon

LD Capital is an VC investors in the blockchain field in Asia.

LD Capital

Innovating, venturing, and catapulting forward the next generation of teams/companies

Infinity Ventures Crypto (IVC)

Hestia Holdings

10X invests across the capital structure, alongside the world's top technology investors. We align Wall Street & Silicon Valley by bringing institutional capital to high growth ventures in private & public markets, helping founders & investors achieve scale & liquidity while retaining upside & control.

10X Capital

Canada

Serafund

Our expertise lies in supporting start-ups early with capital, connections, research, and strategy.

Valhalla Capital

Gaingels is a venture investment syndicate in service of the LGBT+ community and its allies, investing in companies with LGBT+ founders and C-suite leaders at all stages of growth, as well as in more established companies resolved on building more inclusive teams, with a global portfolio of 130+ companies and $70M in deployed investment capital todate. 
The Gaingels network also actively supports its portfolio in identifying and recruiting diverse talent to their C-suite and board leadership teams and fosters a vibrant global community of industry leaders, investors, operators, and entrepreneurs who share a common goal for positive social change through business and successful investments.

Gaingels

NEAR Foundation

Deepwaters

Brevan Howard Asset Management LLP is an investment manager authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority in the United

Brevan Howard

FBG Capital is a digital asset management firm. FBG Capital also incubates promising blockchain projects and companies.

FBG Capital

Draper Associates is a global venture capital firm that invests in companies driving transformative change across industries.

Draper Associates

Circle Ventures focuses on proprietary capital investments in the technology sector.

Circle Ventures

DRW Venture Capital, an arm of principal trading firm DRW, invests primarily in financial and enterprise technology. Many of our portfolio companies benefit from our engagement beyond capital: as a client, as a liquidity provider, through our review of new products, and through our deep industry expertise.

As a firm with no outside investors, wehave a flexible mandate to deploy capital and often tap into our core business to help companies grow. We’re powered by the people, technology and ideas of DRW, and those we invest in may leverage it all. DRW has diversified business expertise and deep networks in trading and technology, real estate investment, cryptocurrencies and product development — a unique advantage.

DRW Venture Capital

Redbeard Ventures builds, invests, and advises startups that help to gain a keen sense of what really matters when building a company.

Red Beard Ventures

Everyrealm is one of the most active investors and developers of the metaverse ecosystem.

Everyrealm

Ripple

FJ Labs

BlockFi

Neuberger Berman

Intersection Growth Partners

Crossbeam Venture Partners

BH Digital

Supermojo

Delphi Digital is a dynamic research-driven firm at the intersection of blockchain technology and traditional finance. Founded by a team of seasoned professionals, the firm is committed to providing cutting-edge insights and strategic analysis in the rapidly evolving digital asset space.

Delphi Digital (Delphi Labs)

Hypersphere is a crypto-native investment platform designed to partner with early-stage and public blockchain networks.

Hypersphere Ventures

Mask Network is the Portal to the New, Open Internet.

Mask Network

A venture capital firm that invests globally in teams creating the future of the internet with decentralized protocols

Polymorphic Capital

BR Capital is a crypto economy and blockchain-focused fund

BR Capital

NxGen works with founders, VC investors and DAOs to build the third generation of the internet. NxGen support founders along each lifecycle stage with Human, Financial and Social Capital as well as In-house CMO services.

NxGen

Gibraltar

Gnosis

Quiet Capital

Criterion

Citizen X is a thesis-driven venture fund investing in Web 3.0 and decentralized technologies.

CitizenX Crypto Ventures Fund, L.P.

Malaysia

PathDAO is a developer of gaming platform to create value in the growing blockchain metaverse.

			Stage	Investors
FYDE Fyde	$3.20 M	~$32.00 M	Seed Round	+1		DeFi	Dec 19, 2023
Surf Protocol	$3.00 M	~$30.00 M	Funding Round		--	DeFi	Oct 30, 2023
SHELL MyShell	$5.60 M	$57.00 M	Seed Round	+2		Blockchain Service	Oct 16, 2023
PARTI Particle Network	$7.00 M	$40.00 M	Seed Round	+5		Modular Blockchain	Mar 2023
ELX Elixir	$2.10 M	~$21.00 M	Seed Round	+1		DeFi	Jan 17, 2023
NIL Nillion	$20.00 M	~$200.00 M	Funding Round	+5	--	Infrastructure	Dec 12, 2022
reNFT	$5.00 M	~$50.00 M	Funding Round	+12	--	--	Jul 26, 2022
WTR Deepwaters	$675,000.00	$14.00 M	Pre-Seed Tier 1	+7	--	DEX	Jul 2022
Supermojo	$6.00 M	~$60.00 M	Seed Round	+15		--	Jul 2022
AZUR Azuro Protocol	$3.50 M	~$35.00 M	Seed Round	+13		Gaming	Jan 19, 2022
SPEC Spectral	$6.75 M	~$67.50 M	Venture Round	+9		Blockchain Service	Dec 9, 2021
PLATO Plato Game	--	--	Seed Round	+7		Gaming	Oct 2021
BEAM Beam	$4.50 M	~$45.00 M	Seed Round (Early Investors)	+6		Gaming	Sep 2021
MC Merit Circle	$4.50 M	$28.13 M	Seed Round (Early Investors)	+6	--	Gaming	Sep 2021

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