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Protagonist
Invests in early-stage emerging technology companies across software, AI, fintech, consumer, and web3 sectors.
Portfolio
74+
Employees
5+
Founded
2022
AUM
≈ $100.0M
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Protagonist Fund
Vintage 2022 • $100.0M
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Protagonist
Invests in early-stage emerging technology companies across software, AI, fintech, consumer, and web3 sectors.
Portfolio
74+
Employees
5+
Founded
2022
AUM
≈ $100.0M
Funds
Protagonist Fund · Vintage 2022 • $100.0M
Showing 24 of 60 matched portfolio companies
1Money is building a payments network exclusively designed for stablecoin transactions, focusing on delivering a superior user experience. This network provides instant transaction confirmation, fixed low fees paid in the stablecoin used, and native support for multiple fiat-backed currencies. It is designed for seamless interoperability with existing blockchains and wallets while maintaining high security and compliance standards.
Funding: $20.0M
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Funding: $20.0M
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Agentio is an automated advertising platform that connects brands with a network of premium creators, utilizing advanced matching technology to ensure optimal alignment between brand messages and creator content. This platform addresses the inefficiencies in traditional ad buying by providing real-time analytics and significantly improving return on ad spend, achieving 4x-10x better results compared to conventional digital video channels.
aion provides an enterprise GPU cloud platform, aion Forge, offering on-demand, high-performance compute for AI workloads with transparent, usage-based pricing. The company also offers a full-stack AI product suite, aion Nexus, which includes custom model development and deployment services supported by embedded engineers. This integrated approach closes the gap between AI pilot projects and production-scale deployment by abstracting infrastructure complexity.
Anoki offers ContextIQ, an end‑to‑end multimodal AI platform that analyzes visual, audio, and textual cues in Connected TV streams to generate scene‑level context tags and real‑time brand‑suitability scores. The AI Copilot recommends optimal ad insertion points, enabling advertisers, agencies, and publishers—especially in healthcare and FAST channels—to place contextually relevant, brand‑safe ads at scale while maintaining privacy and compliance.
Funding: $10.0M
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Funding: $10.0M
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Arago builds a novel AI inference processor that integrates optical communication pathways with silicon logic, delivering ultra‑high bandwidth and low‑latency performance while using standard semiconductor manufacturing processes. This design provides significantly higher token‑per‑second rates and lower power consumption than traditional GPU or ASIC solutions, enabling large enterprises and data center operators to scale AI‑native applications cost‑effectively.
Funding: $26.0M
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Funding: $26.0M
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Bird Buddy offers an AI-powered bird feeder that captures 2K video and 5MP photos of visiting birds, providing real-time notifications and species recognition through a connected mobile app. This technology addresses the challenge of birdwatching by enhancing user engagement and promoting bird conservation through awareness and education.
Funding: $34.1M
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Funding: $34.1M
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Blok provides a platform for simulating product experiments using synthetic user profiles modeled after real behavioral data. This allows product teams to validate assumptions and compare design variants predictively before committing development resources. The service helps de-risk product decisions by offering directional insights on user response across different personas.
Funding: $7.5M
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MaC Venture CapitalProtagonist
MaC Venture CapitalProtagonist
Funding: $7.5M
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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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Cogni offers a self-custody wallet that enables users to manage their private keys and digital assets across multiple blockchain networks, including support for NFTs and decentralized applications (dApps). This platform addresses the challenge of secure and user-friendly management of digital currencies and assets, ensuring users retain full control over their financial resources.
Credit Genie is a mobile app that lets U.S. users securely link their bank accounts and receive instant, interest‑free cash advances of up to $150, repaid automatically on their next payday. The platform uses bank‑grade encryption, offers higher advance limits for on‑time repayments, and includes budgeting tools and spending insights to help users avoid debt cycles.
Funding: $33.8M
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Funding: $33.8M
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Deblock provides a unified platform combining a traditional current account with a non-custodial cryptocurrency wallet. Users can manage fiat operations, including receiving salaries and using VISA cards, alongside seamless crypto exchange and self-custody asset management. This service offers high yield on deposited funds while eliminating typical bank fees and providing unrestricted crypto deposits and withdrawals.
75+
10K+Approximate amount of employees
Funding: $26.1M
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Funding: $26.1M
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Dialect enables seamless onchain user interactions by embedding one-click transactions directly into existing platforms via Blinks. The platform also delivers real-time, actionable onchain notifications and alerts across multiple channels for events like DeFi updates and governance proposals. This integration allows applications to offer enhanced user engagement and retention through fast, low-friction Web3 functionality.
Diamond Standard offers a regulated, fungible commodity backed by natural diamonds, utilizing patented technology that incorporates a wireless chip for secure electronic trading. This innovation provides individuals and institutions with access to the $1.2 trillion diamond market, enabling them to invest in a previously inaccessible asset class while mitigating risks associated with inflation.
Funding: $31.0M
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Horizon Kinetics LLCLeft Lane Capital
Horizon Kinetics LLCLeft Lane Capital
Funding: $31.0M
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Eluve provides medical AI solutions designed to integrate seamlessly into clinical workflows for healthcare providers. The platform offers an Ambient Scribe for automated documentation, a Clinical Copilot for real-time diagnostic insights, and Operations Intelligence for facility optimization. This technology lightens administrative burden, sharpens decision-making, and improves overall patient throughput and satisfaction.
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10+Approximate amount of employees
Enlaye provides an AI‑native Risk Lifecycle Management platform for the construction and real‑estate sectors. The system ingests project risk data, uses generative AI to extract, assess, compare, and prioritize risks, and delivers actionable insights within existing workflows while keeping all data on‑premise or in a secure private cloud. It helps builders, developers, and owners accelerate risk analysis, lower contracting costs, and reduce claim exposure across the entire project lifecycle.
Funding: $1.7M
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+ 1 Other investorGlasswing VenturesHannah Grey
+ 1 Other investorGlasswing VenturesHannah Grey
Funding: $1.7M
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Epirus develops solid-state, long-pulse high-power microwave systems integrated with AI for electronic warfare and air domain awareness. Their technology provides effective counter-drone and drone swarm protection, enhancing security for critical assets against evolving asymmetric threats.
Era is an AI‑native personal finance platform that aggregates users' bank accounts into a unified context accessible by any MCP‑compatible assistant such as Claude or ChatGPT. Through natural‑language prompts, users can query balances, spending, and portfolio health, and the system can execute transfers, rule‑based automations, or investment actions, while the Agency app proactively monitors accounts and triggers moves before the user opens the app.
Funding: $11.0M
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+ 4 Other investorsProtagonistThird Kind Venture Capital
+ 4 Other investorsProtagonistThird Kind Venture Capital
Funding: $11.0M
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Exowatt develops modular, dispatchable energy systems designed to power AI infrastructure using solar energy. The system captures solar heat, stores it efficiently in a thermal battery, and converts it to on-demand electricity using a proprietary heat engine. This provides clean, 24-hour baseload power for data centers and utilities seeking reliable, scalable energy solutions.
Funding: $20.0M
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Funding: $20.0M
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Fhenix is a Layer 2 rollup on Ethereum that utilizes fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) to enable confidential smart contracts and encrypted computation of data without decryption. This technology addresses the need for on-chain privacy, allowing for secure applications such as confidential voting, private auctions, and decentralized identity management.
Funding: $22.0M
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Hack VC
Hack VC
Funding: $22.0M
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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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Halcyon is a cyber resilience platform that employs a ransomware prevention engine and data exfiltration prevention (DXP) technology to neutralize ransomware threats in real time. By intercepting encryption keys and automating decryption, Halcyon ensures zero ransoms paid and minimizes recovery time to hours, effectively protecting businesses from the financial and operational impacts of ransomware attacks.
Funding: $364.0M
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Evolution Equity Partners
Evolution Equity Partners
Funding: $364.0M
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Holonym Foundation provides a decentralized infrastructure for creating Human Keys, enabling users to derive high-entropy keys from biometrics and other memorable data for secure identity verification. Their solutions, including the Silk wallet and Zeronym identity protocol, facilitate private transactions and proof of personhood in zero trust environments, enhancing individual privacy and security.
Funding: $6.6M
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Funding: $6.6M
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The startup has developed a basketball hoop with a high-definition screen integrated into the backboard, enabling players to engage in targeted workouts and track their performance through skills training programs. This technology allows users to practice NBA-level drills and compete with others remotely, enhancing their basketball skills from home.
Funding: $34.6M
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Funding: $34.6M
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IDA provides HKDA, a fiat-referenced stablecoin that facilitates secure, 24/7 cross-border transactions between Hong Kong and global markets, ensuring all circulating tokens are fully backed by reserve assets. This solution addresses the challenges of currency volatility and transaction inefficiencies in international commerce by enabling seamless payments and trade financing.
Funding: $6.0M
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HashedTitan Fund
HashedTitan Fund
Funding: $6.0M
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