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Maelstrom
Founder-led early-stage fund focused on building infrastructure, products, and services that enable decentralized, trustless ecosystems (web3/blockchain).
Portfolio
34+
Employees
10+
Founded
N/A
AUM
≈ $250.0M
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Maelstrom Equity Fund I
Vintage 2025 • $250.0M
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Maelstrom
Founder-led early-stage fund focused on building infrastructure, products, and services that enable decentralized, trustless ecosystems (web3/blockchain).
Portfolio
34+
Employees
10+
Founded
N/A
AUM
≈ $250.0M
Funds
Maelstrom Equity Fund I · Vintage 2025 • $250.0M
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Aethirs provides a decentralized cloud infrastructure that delivers on-demand access to enterprise-grade GPUs for AI model training and real-time gaming applications. This solution addresses the need for scalable, low-latency compute resources while ensuring high performance and security across a global network.
Funding: $24.8M
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Funding: $24.8M
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Auki Labs is developing a decentralized machine perception network called posemesh, which enables AI and devices to collaboratively understand and interact with the physical world through spatial awareness. This technology addresses the challenge of limited AI collaboration in environments tied to physical locations, enhancing data ownership and privacy for users.
Funding: $13.0M
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Funding: $13.0M
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Bilby utilizes AI and machine learning to automate the collection and analysis of regulatory data, providing real-time insights through APIs and reports. The platform enhances scalability in government and regulatory affairs, enabling organizations to efficiently navigate complex compliance landscapes.
D3 is building the first blockchain specifically designed for DomainFi to tokenize global domain names. This infrastructure unlocks liquidity and distribution across major Web3 ecosystems by connecting traditional DNS assets to decentralized finance. The platform enables new monetization opportunities for domain assets through its DNS-compliant tokenization architecture.
Funding: $25.0M
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Funding: $25.0M
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Elixir is a modular Delegated Proof of Stake (DPoS) network designed to enhance orderbook liquidity by enabling users to deploy liquidity across various trading pairs and exchanges. This decentralized infrastructure, supported by 10,000 global validators, eliminates reliance on centralized firms, providing a trustless environment for organic yield generation and increased orderbook depth.
Funding: $17.6M
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Funding: $17.6M
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Elixir Network is a modular DPoS blockchain designed to enhance liquidity across orderbook exchanges by enabling users to deploy trustless liquidity to various trading pairs. This technology addresses the reliance on centralized firms for deep liquidity, allowing exchanges to access organic yield and improve orderbook depth.
Funding: $8.0M
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Funding: $8.0M
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Ethena develops derivative infrastructure to create a yield-bearing stablecoin, sUSDe, on the Ethereum blockchain. This solution addresses the lack of crypto-native stablecoins that provide consistent returns, offering users an annual percentage yield (APY) of 29% backed by a total value locked (TVL) of $4.82 billion.
Funding: $27.1M
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Funding: $27.1M
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Ether.fi provides non-custodial liquid staking solutions that automate asset deployment across optimized DeFi strategies to maximize user yields. Users can deposit assets like ETH and BTC into strategy vaults that auto-compound earnings across top protocols. The platform also offers a DeFi-native, non-custodial credit card providing cashback on worldwide purchases linked to the user's crypto portfolio.
Funding: $32.4M
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Funding: $32.4M
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Web3 Data Lakehouse that centralizes and organizes blockchain and decentralized application data for seamless integration and analysis. It addresses the challenges of fragmented data sources and inefficiencies in accessing and processing Web3 data, enabling developers and businesses to derive actionable insights and build data-driven applications.
Funding: $5.2M
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Funding: $5.2M
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INIT Capital operates an all-chain money market allowing users to lend, borrow, and access various yield strategies through Liquidity Hooks. Users can construct leveraged positions like looping, margin long/short, and leverage farming across supported networks like Blast and Mantle. The platform provides an integrated dashboard for managing these decentralized finance positions and bootstrapping liquidity.
Founded 202350+
Funding: $3.1M
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Funding: $3.1M
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The startup has developed a decentralized blockchain platform that utilizes zero-knowledge machine learning for credit risk underwriting in lending services. This technology enables users to stake and restake a variety of assets, enhancing their returns while effectively managing their investment positions.
JUICE Finance is a decentralized finance application that allows users to leverage their ETH as collateral to access up to 300% in USDB and ETH for point farming within the Blast ecosystem. This enables users to maximize their yield while utilizing both real-world and digital assets for borrowing and lending.
Khalani offers a unified platform—Khalani Network and TokenFlight—that provides APIs, SDKs, and embeddable UI components for building, routing, signing, and broadcasting blockchain transactions across multiple public networks. By abstracting wallet interactions and handling node selection, gas optimization, and audit‑ready logging, it lets developers integrate secure on‑chain actions without managing private keys or complex infrastructure.
Funding: $2.5M
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Funding: $2.5M
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The startup operates a social prediction protocol that enables users to create and configure prediction markets for major events, facilitating community engagement and revenue generation through trading fees. By providing a research and development network, the company enhances decision-making processes for creators and their audiences.
Funding: $14.0M
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Funding: $14.0M
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Nillion provides a decentralized computing network that utilizes cryptographic techniques to securely process and store sensitive data, enabling the development of privacy-enhancing applications across various industries. By distributing trust and employing Information-Theoretic Security, Nillion addresses the risks associated with centralized data control, facilitating secure AI training and confidential data management.
Funding: $49.3M
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Funding: $49.3M
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Obol Labs develops distributed validators for Ethereum, enhancing the security and decentralization of the network's consensus layer. By enabling ETH holders to stake on these distributed validators, the company addresses the risks associated with traditional validator setups, such as slashing and single points of failure.
Oyl is a non-custodial Bitcoin operating system and ordinals wallet that aggregates listings from multiple marketplaces, enabling users to trade BRC-20 tokens and ordinals efficiently. By providing a secure platform for on-chain transactions and batch trading, Oyl addresses the fragmentation in the Bitcoin asset marketplace, allowing users to manage their assets with full control and transparency.
Pendle Finance is a decentralized finance protocol that enables users to tokenize yield-bearing assets, allowing them to separate and trade future yields from principal. This approach provides users with fixed yield options and greater control over their yield exposure without the constraints of lock-up periods.
Funding: $3.7M
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Funding: $3.7M
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The startup develops a stablecoin system tailored for decentralized finance, enabling seamless stablecoin exchanges and multi-token stable swaps. Its platform automates position management to enhance yield generation and liquidity, improving the overall usability of stablecoins in the DeFi ecosystem.
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300+Approximate amount of employees
Funding: $3.0M
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Funding: $3.0M
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The startup provides a crypto platform focused on the research and development of interactive Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKPs) for off-chain user data attestation. This technology enables clients to securely verify user data without revealing sensitive information, facilitating better access to blockchain applications.
The startup operates a digital asset management platform that utilizes inter-blockchain communication technology to facilitate the creation and management of independent asset vaults. This enables investors to efficiently aggregate liquidity and deploy their digital assets across multiple blockchain networks with minimal effort.
Funding: $11.5M
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Funding: $11.5M
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Rated provides independent ratings and robust data pipelines for validators and node operators in proof-of-stake networks, enabling users to access high-integrity performance metrics. The platform addresses the challenge of fragmented and poorly contextualized Web3 infrastructure data, facilitating informed decision-making for stakers and developers.
Funding: $15.5M
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Funding: $15.5M
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Solayer operates a restaking network on Solana that enables the reuse of trust assets at the consensus layer to secure multiple decentralized applications, enhancing transaction throughput and block space customization. By providing a yield-bearing stablecoin, sUSD, and optimizing validator yield, Solayer addresses the need for efficient resource allocation and security in decentralized systems.
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500+Approximate amount of employees
Funding: $23.4M
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Funding: $23.4M
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Provides a user-friendly platform for buying and selling meme tokens, leveraging blockchain technology to facilitate secure and transparent transactions. Simplifies access to the meme token market, addressing the challenges of liquidity and user experience for traders and investors.
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