• Artela

  Participated · Seed · Jul 2023

  Artela is building a base-layer blockchain network designed for large-scale decentralized applications, with a modular architecture that lets developers add native extensions called Aspects. Its extension layer enhances on-chain programmability while remaining compatible with existing smart contracts. The team says this modularity enables customized functionality in a lightweight, dynamic way, aiming to accelerate innovation and broaden possible use cases. Artela plans to publish the Aspect white paper and launch an initial testnet later this year. The company intends to use its recent funding to fuel technology development, grow the team, and drive market expansion. Artela’s public materials position it as focused on improving blockchain extensibility to empower Web3 developers.

• Safe

  Participated · Equity · Jul 2022

  Safe (formerly Gnosis Safe) is a smart-contract account platform that replaces single-key private key ownership with configurable smart contract accounts. Its feature set includes multi-signature authentication, DAO/community control, recovery and inheritance mechanisms, transaction batching and gas abstraction, transaction checks and hybrid custody, and spending limits and automation. The product has processed north of 600,000 transactions and secures digital assets exceeding $40 billion; 13% of all Cryptopunks NFTs are secured using Safe. Following a community vote to spin Safe off from Gnosis, the project will support a non-profit Safe Ecosystem Foundation and continue product development. Co-founder Lukas Schor framed Safe as a public-good, use-case agnostic primitive for web3 custody, targeting broader adoption by overcoming private-key limitations.

• InfStones

  Participated · Equity · Jun 2022

  InfStones provides infrastructure and developer tools to help clients build applications across a number of blockchain platforms, supporting infrastructure for over 50 blockchains including Ethereum, Polygon, Solana and Chainlink. The company serves institutional clients globally, with customers ranging from centralized crypto firms like Binance and Circle to decentralized scaling platforms such as Polygon. InfStones has positioned itself as aiming to be the web3 version of Amazon Web Services to simplify onboarding and multi-chain application development. The company plans to use its latest funding for product development aligned with its roadmap, expansion into new markets, team growth, and to advance web3 adoption. Financially, the raise brings the company’s total funding to $111 million and management says the valuation is “near unicorn-status.” InfStones was founded in 2018. InfStones provides unified blockchain infrastructure—node hosting, public and dedicated API gateways, and node management—aimed at making it easy for exchanges, wallets, custodians, asset managers and analytics providers to build on many chains. The company currently supports tens of thousands of nodes on more than 50 chains, including Ethereum, Binance Smart Chain, Cardano, Polygon, Polkadot, Solana and Chainlink. It serves a wide variety of institutional clients and positions itself as the “AWS of Web3.” InfStones is launching a front-end user interface and a self-service portal that lets clients deploy nodes within minutes; public APIs (BSC, BSC archival data, Ethereum and NEO) are available today with Cosmos and other chains forthcoming. The company plans to use the new funding to triple its team from 30 to 90 globally distributed employees over the next year and to expand support to more than 100 chains and protocols. Platform advancements and continued technology research and development are also on the agenda. InfStones provides a Platform-as-a-Service for blockchain infrastructure that enables clients to quickly deploy nodes, run validator nodes, and access on-chain data across a wide variety of networks. The platform supports tens of thousands of computing nodes on over 50 chains, including Ethereum, Binance Smart Chain, Cardano, Polygon, Polkadot, Solana and Chainlink. Institutional clients include digital-asset exchanges, wallets, custodians, fund managers and analytics providers, with named customers such as Binance, Circle, KuCoin, imToken, BitGo and Dune Analytics. Founded in 2018, the core team includes former senior engineers from Google, Oracle and Microsoft and academic leadership such as Dr. Xue Liu; the company has business offices across three countries on two continents. With the new capital, InfStones plans to expand beyond staking into public and dedicated API gateways, enhanced node management services, and a front-end self-service portal. The company recently completed a $10M Series A to support that product and service expansion. InfStones is a Silicon Valley staking startup founded in 2018 that operates full nodes and acts as a block producer for proof-of-stake blockchains. The company aggregates PoS token holders’ votes to participate in block production, receives mining rewards, and distributes those rewards to holders while taking a 10–30% commission depending on the chain. It is currently a block producer for nine PoS chains including EOS, Tron, Cosmos and Tezos, and its EOS node has over 90 million votes, staking more than $450 million worth of EOS. InfStones has a five-person team and plans to use new funding to hire and expand its service to additional PoS networks. Founder and CEO Jonathan Shi, a former Oracle engineer, said the company expects PoS to drive exponential growth in the blockchain industry. DHVC also assisted InfStones in recruiting large EOS holders to use its staking service.

• Bitget Wallet

  Participated · Series A · May 2022

  BitKeep is a decentralized multi-chain digital wallet offering an all-in-one portfolio of services, including an integrated NFT marketplace, wallet functions, swap services, a DApp browser and a Launchpad. The company provides secure asset management and trading to more than 8 million users across 168 countries and is the top-rated wallet on Google Play, surpassing MetaMask. BitKeep supports over 250,000 types of cryptocurrencies across more than 80 chains and 90 mainnet networks, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, Polygon, BNB Chain, Fantom and Solana, and connects to over 20,000 dApps. The company plans to use the new funding to extend its range of services while enhancing the stability and security of its offerings. The investment includes a merger with Bitget’s business domain to significantly bolster its existing user base and product offering. BitKeep is a Singapore-based Web3.0 cross-chain wallet offering a comprehensive product for accessing cross-chain DApps. The company reports it has risen to be the leader of Asia-based blockchain wallets in terms of user base, revenue, and valuation. BitKeep completed a $15M Series A and says it hit a $100M valuation after the round. Founder Kevin says the company will enter a new stage centered on a “cross-chain DAO” to empower individual wallet users as owners of the ecosystem. BitKeep plans to evolve into a Web3.0 cross-chain and cross-layer protocol positioned as infrastructure and a driving force for the Metaverse. The company lists Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands contact details while describing itself as Singapore-based.

• KlayCity

  Participated · Seed · Mar 2022

  KlayCity is a P2E virtual world built on the Klaytn Network that enables players to use Land NFTs, $LAY tokens and $ORB tokens to scavenge, explore and level. District NFT owners can govern virtual districts and participate in various activities designed to integrate gaming and crypto economics. The company plans to continue building the virtual world with Land NFTs and has a broader plan to develop IP businesses based on KlayCity’s original story. KlayCity completed a Land NFT presale on Feb 10 at 500 KLAY per NFT, and while actively traded on OpenSea a district (#684) reached 120,000 KLAY on Mar 11—240× the mint price. Led by CEO Jake Choi, the team intends to use the seed funds to further develop the platform and its virtual-world experiences. The company is based in Seoul, South Korea.

No current team members are available.