Prelude

Gondor is the DeFi layer for prediction markets, allowing users to borrow against their Polymarket positions. The platform enhances capital efficiency for traders by providing lending and leverage options.

Dexari is a decentralized trading platform that allows users to trade perpetual contracts and spot markets with high leverage and advanced trading tools, all while maintaining self-custody of their assets.

Exponent Beauty offers self-activated clinical-grade skincare products designed to address various skin concerns.

Dango is a DeFi-native Layer-1 blockchain built for trading, offering a unified trading account for spot trading, perpetual futures, vaults, and lending within a single interface. It aims to solve issues like capital inefficiency, execution quality, and poor user experience in decentralized finance.

GlueX is a framework for blockchain API access and DeFi services, offering tools like DEX aggregation and yield farming on Optimism. It provides a unified experience for developers and users.

Fluidkey is a financial platform that allows users to receive, grow, and spend their funds with global accounts and instant yield. It emphasizes privacy through stealth addresses and offers a self-custodial experience.

Extended is a perpetuals DEX built by an ex-Revolut team, offering trading across 100+ markets including crypto, equities, FX, commodities, and indices, with up to 100x leverage, zero maker fees, and 0.025% taker fees. The platform bridges crypto-native infrastructure with traditional financial markets, enabling users to trade crypto and TradFi, use multiple assets as collateral, earn yield, and manage it all within a single account.

HairDAO is an open-source R&D network where patients and researchers collaborate to develop revolutionary new treatments for hair loss. The platform allows users to log treatment experiences, contribute to research, and earn HAIR tokens as rewards.

Narval is the DeFi Gateway for institutional wallets, providing secure access to decentralized finance (DeFi) opportunities while retaining custody control for clients.

ChainPatrol provides AI-powered brand protection solutions for Web3 companies, focusing on safeguarding against phishing attacks, fake domains, and impersonations.

Maple is redefining asset management for the digital age — onchain, transparent, and built to scale. Through institutional-grade lending and yield strategies, we bring the rigor of traditional finance to the transparency and innovation of crypto.

Those Beyond is a domain name for sale, offering premium domain acquisition services with options for purchase or lease.

Early-stage seed crypto investor focusing on user-ownership decentralized networks, combining VC and active liquid token trading and offering structured founder programs, peer working groups, research, and onchain policy guidance.

Crypto-focused VC led by operators who helped scale projects like Solana and OpenSea. Lattice prioritizes distribution and built-in audiences as their core investment lens, and publicly critiques retail-unfriendly low-float launches and airdrop mechanics.

Robot Ventures is a $75M early-stage crypto fund founded and led by Robert Leshner (Compound) and Tarun Chitra (Gauntlet), who actively run major DeFi companies while managing the fund, giving founders direct access to operators at the center of on-chain markets. The fund specializes in backing highly technical crypto primitives at the pre-seed stage before they become marquee names, leveraging deep quant research expertise to evaluate complex DeFi mechanisms that many generalist VCs struggle to understand.

Crypto-native operators who architect token-first networks through token design, governance, and community bootstrapping. 1kx specializes in backing 100+ on-chain projects with sustainable token economies.

Engineering-led venture capital firm run by former founders and senior engineers from Google and Facebook. Uses large-scale analysis of hundreds of millions of code commits to drive investment decisions. Accepts 10-year lockups to support long-dated token mechanics.