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Paper Ventures
Paper Ventures focuses on early‑stage Web3 and blockchain infrastructure companies, providing capital and operational support to help founders build scalable protocols and applications. The firm targets seed and pre‑seed...
Portfolio
29+
Employees
N/A
Founded
N/A
AUM
≈ $25.0M
Investment focus
Stages
Pre-Seed → Series A
Industries
Software Only
Geographic scope
Global
Fund details
Funds
Early Stage Web3 Fund
Vintage 2024 • $25.0M
Sources
Paper Ventures
Paper Ventures focuses on early‑stage Web3 and blockchain infrastructure companies, providing capital and operational support to help founders build scalable protocols and applications. The firm targets seed and pre‑seed rounds across areas such as DeFi, crypto‑enabled AI, and decentralized finance tooling, aiming to back innovative projects that can shape the future of decentralized technology.
Portfolio
29+
Employees
N/A
Founded
N/A
AUM
≈ $25.0M
Funds
Early Stage Web3 Fund · Vintage 2024 • $25.0M
Stages
Pre-Seed → Series A
Industries
Software Only
Geographic scope
Global
Sources
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Provides a universal verification layer for Ethereum that leverages Eigenlayer to enable faster and cheaper zero-knowledge (ZK) proof verification, reducing costs to 10% of current methods. This infrastructure addresses the slow integration of ZK primitives into Ethereum, supporting diverse proof systems and accelerating the platform's scalability and efficiency for trustless applications.
Camp Network is a Layer-1 blockchain designed to modernize intellectual property infrastructure for the AI agent economy. It provides creators with the tools to own, share, and monetize their IP across a global registry. This infrastructure enables AI agents to train on verifiable, user-owned assets while ensuring participants capture generated value.
Funding: $4.0M
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Funding: $4.0M
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Cap is an on‑chain platform that unites depositors, borrowers, and underwriters in a USD‑denominated ecosystem. Depositors lock approved assets to receive cUSD and earn yield from unsecured loans, while underwriters provide credit guarantees and collect premiums, and borrowers access instant USD credit backed by the pooled capital. The protocol tokenizes yields and guarantees, offering transparent risk monitoring and automated incentives for participants.
Funding: $8.0M
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+ 8 Other investorsFranklin TempletonTriton Capital
+ 8 Other investorsFranklin TempletonTriton Capital
Funding: $8.0M
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Dare Market is a decentralized prediction market platform that uses blockchain smart contracts to let users create and trade synthetic assets representing real‑world events and crypto price movements. The system provides on‑chain order matching, trust‑less settlement, and direct wallet integration, reducing custodial risk and fees while offering transparent, permissionless access for DeFi traders and developers.
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50+Approximate amount of employees
DoubleZero operates a global network of dedicated fiber links that provide blockchain validators, RPC nodes, and protocol developers with deterministic low‑latency connectivity, avoiding public‑internet congestion. Its IBRL client creates secure tunnels, automatically selects the shortest geographic route, and falls back to the public internet when a private link is unavailable, while an on‑chain control plane records performance metrics and supports multicast data distribution.
20+
1K+Approximate amount of employees
Funding: $28.0M
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DragonflyMulticoin Capital
DragonflyMulticoin Capital
Funding: $28.0M
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Drosera is a decentralized incident response protocol that utilizes smart contracts to define emergency conditions without being deployed on-chain, allowing protocols to set traps for detecting and mitigating exploits. By enabling real-time monitoring and automated responses, Drosera can mitigate over 90% of potential exploits, significantly reducing financial losses for stakeholders.
Founded 2014
The startup operates a Web3 social gaming platform that enables players to engage and socialize through a variety of customizable minigames. This platform provides a dynamic environment for users to express their creativity and individuality while fostering community interaction within the gaming experience.
Funding: $7.0M
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Funding: $7.0M
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Provides a decentralized, open-source platform for developing AI agents that utilize living knowledge systems, enabling continuous adaptation and real-time improvement of applications. The platform ensures secure ownership, monetization of intellectual property, and robust data protection, addressing the challenges of static AI models and data privacy. Developers can create specialized AI solutions powered by high-quality, extensible knowledge bases, ensuring accuracy and relevance.
Funding: $10.0M
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Funding: $10.0M
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Glacis Labs provides agentic infrastructure to unify and secure fragmented cross-chain interactions across various token standards and virtual machines. The platform offers enterprise-grade network abstraction for builders and a unified interface for retail users to execute low-slippage asset transfers. Additionally, Glacis Core delivers technology to protect ecosystems from single bridge failures and bootstrap liquidity.
Funding: $2.1M
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Arrington CapitalPaper Ventures
Arrington CapitalPaper Ventures
Funding: $2.1M
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human.tech provides a privacy‑first, self‑sovereign identity framework that generates verified digital identities and wallets using cryptographic Human Keys and zero‑knowledge proofs, allowing users to prove uniqueness, age, or government ID without exposing raw data. The platform supports multiple blockchain ecosystems and offers seed‑phrase‑free recovery methods such as social 2FA, email fallback, or biometrics, enabling secure authentication and access to decentralized apps, reputation systems, and financial services.
Hyve provides a modular data availability solution that achieves 1 GB/s bandwidth and sub-second response times, enabling high-performance decentralized applications to handle large volumes of data efficiently. Its permissionless network of decentralized nodes ensures reliable data access and seamless integration for applications in sectors like DeFi, decentralized AI, and Layer 2 solutions.
Funding: $1.9M
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Lemniscap
Lemniscap
Funding: $1.9M
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Limitless Exchange is a decentralized exchange that uses an automated market maker to enable peer‑to‑peer swaps of ERC‑20 tokens across Ethereum, Binance Smart Chain, and Layer‑2 networks without custodial intermediaries. The platform aggregates liquidity from multiple pools, offers gas‑optimized batch routing and an on‑chain order‑book overlay for limit orders, and provides REST and WebSocket APIs for developers and institutional traders to integrate DEX functionality.
Funding: $10.0M
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1confirmation
Funding: $10.0M
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Methlab provides on‑chain fixed‑rate, fixed‑duration loans that are liquidation‑free, allowing borrowers to lock in a known cost of capital. The platform matches lenders and borrowers through an intent‑discovery API and settles all transactions on Ethereum‑compatible networks, supporting ERC‑20 tokens and native assets. It integrates with existing DeFi primitives and includes a Uniswap V3 whitelister to restrict interactions to vetted liquidity pools.
MonkeyTilt is a crypto‑first gambling platform that combines a casino, live dealer games, and a sportsbook into a single shared wallet, allowing users to deposit and withdraw instantly with Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, USDT or USDC. The service offers thousands of games from top providers, exclusive originals, and live‑in‑play sports betting, while an integrated affiliate program lets partners earn commissions on all player activity.
Funding: $50.0M
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Funding: $50.0M
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Naptha is a modular AI platform that enables developers to create and scale multi-agent systems using a Python SDK and a centralized hub for reusable components. It addresses the challenge of limited agent collaboration by facilitating the deployment of millions of autonomous agents that can evolve and perform tasks more efficiently than human-designed counterparts.
Funding: $6.0M
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Arche Capitalcyber•Fund
Arche Capitalcyber•Fund
Funding: $6.0M
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Pell Network operates as an omnichain Bitcoin restaking network designed specifically for the decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem built around Bitcoin (BTCFi). It enables Bitcoin holders to leverage their existing BTC assets to secure and earn yield across various Layer 2 and cross-chain protocols. This platform facilitates the expansion of Bitcoin's utility beyond simple holding by integrating it into broader DeFi security and staking mechanisms.
Funding: $3.5M
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Funding: $3.5M
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Perle provides a human‑centric data and evaluation platform that connects AI teams with vetted experts—doctors, lawyers, engineers, and other specialists—to generate high‑quality, domain‑specific training data and safety assessments. Its three products include WhisperMind, a multi‑modal dataset pipeline for embodied AI, and a suite of data services that handle expert hiring, annotation, quality control, and model‑focused evaluation, all delivered by a global payroll of experts to ensure consistent standards and traceable audit trails.
Funding: $9.0M
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Framework Ventures
Framework Ventures
Funding: $9.0M
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Psy Protocol is a Layer‑1 blockchain that combines a Parallel Ascending Recursive Tree Hierarchy (PARTH) with Proof‑of‑Useful‑Work consensus to achieve millions of transactions per second, O(log n) block finality, and fixed low fees. It processes transactions locally and validates them with zero‑knowledge proofs, preserving data privacy, and uses Software‑Defined Keys—programmable zk circuits that enable autonomous AI agents and custom account logic without private keys.
Raise operates a digital gift card marketplace that allows consumers to buy and sell discounted gift cards while earning up to 20% cash back on purchases. The platform enhances loyalty and rewards for users and brands by automating transactions and providing a seamless app experience.
Funding: $63.0M
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Haun Ventures
Haun Ventures
Funding: $63.0M
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Rakurai provides high-performance Solana staking infrastructure utilizing supercharged validator nodes to deliver higher block rewards for stakers. The platform optimizes throughput with bigger block capacity and low-latency execution to maximize yield capture. This approach benefits stakers with superior APY while offering validators capital efficiency through optimized block rewards sharing.
Funding: $250.0K
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Funding: $250.0K
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The startup develops a computing platform that utilizes trusted execution environment (TEE) abstraction middleware to enhance verifiable on-chain AI applications. This technology enables developers to deploy user-owned AI models securely, addressing the need for trust and transparency in AI deployment.
Funding: $3.3M
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Paper Ventures
Paper Ventures
Funding: $3.3M
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The startup operates a liquid re-staking token platform that enables users to earn additional yield on their ether staking by utilizing both native ether and liquid re-staking tokens. This third-generation protocol enhances yield generation in decentralized finance (DeFi) applications, allowing clients to maximize their staking returns.
15+
300+Approximate amount of employees
Funding: $25.0M
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BH DigitalGalaxy Digital
BH DigitalGalaxy Digital
Funding: $25.0M
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Sophon is an on-chain entertainment platform that utilizes the ZKsync stack to provide a gasless, high-throughput experience for users, enabling secure ownership and seamless digital asset transfers. It simplifies access to blockchain technology, allowing mainstream audiences to engage with immersive entertainment without the complexities typically associated with crypto.
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Superp is a decentralized perpetual exchange that lets traders open long or short positions on a wide range of meme, newly minted, and Binance Alpha tokens with up to 10,000× leverage. The platform uses smart‑contract settlement to provide non‑custodial trading and a built‑in no‑liquidation mechanism for selected markets, enabling instant access to newly minted assets. On‑chain fee transparency and real‑time analytics support automated and high‑leverage strategies.
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