Blockchain
Animoca Brands
Driving Digital Property Rights via NFTs and Gaming to Build the Open Metaverse
Series B, 2021
Animoca Brands is a Web3 leader that leverages blockchain to deliver digital property rights to consumers around the world to help to establish the open metaverse. The company develops and publishes a broad portfolio of products including original games such as The Sandbox, PHANTOM GALAXIES™, Life Beyond, and Crazy Defense Heroes, and products utilizing popular intellectual properties from the worlds of sports and entertainment, such as The Walking Dead, Power Rangers, MotoGP™, and Formula E. It has multiple subsidiaries, including The Sandbox, Blowfish Studios, Quidd, GAMEE, nWay, Pixowl, Forj, Lympo, Animoca Brands Japan, Grease Monkey Games, Eden Games, Darewise Entertainment, Notre Game, TinyTap, Be., PIXELYNX, WePlay Media, Gryfyn, and Azarus. Animoca Brands is one of the most active investors in Web3, with a portfolio of over 400 Web3 investments, both directly and through Animoca Ventures, including Yuga Labs, Axie Infinity, Polygon, Consensys, Fireblocks, OpenSea, Dapper Labs, Yield Guild Games, Alien Worlds, and many more.
Circle
Digital Dollars for Global Prosperity
Series F, 2022
Circle believes in a future where digital dollars work securely around the world to create a more prosperous global economy for everyone. It is the same company that created USDC, a digital currency backed by the US dollar and always redeemable 1:1. They work closely with regulators to ensure our digital dollar guides and surpasses the standards for stablecoins. By doing this, USDC has the potential to change how money moves around the world.
CoinHomes
BTC-Backed Mortgages
Seed, 2021
CoinHomes is the first platform in North America that allows you to lease your dream home with Crypto. CoinHomes frees customers from the constraints of traditional mortgages and opens the real estate market to the next generation through crypto-backed real estate transactions.
DXOS
Cloudless, Collaborative Software
Seed, 2022
DXOS is an open source developer platform for building local-first, multiplayer, interoperable apps where users own their data. DXOS provides developers with everything they need to build real-time, collaborative apps which run entirely on the client, and communicate peer-to-peer, without servers. DXOS applications work offline, share state instantly when online, and leave end-users in control of their data and privacy.
LimeWire
On a Mission to Reshape the Creator Economy
Seed, 2021
LimeWire is a platform for content creators, artists and brands to create membership-based communities for their most passionate fans. We aim to help artists build a recurring revenue stream by providing a platform and framework for direct fan membership. In turn, fans receive exclusive content, access to a private community, the ability to directly communicate with the artists and brands they love, and become a part of their journey. Through blockchain technology, we make exclusive content and assets ownable and tradeable, allowing fans to not only consume exclusive content but also to directly participate in the success of the creators they support. In short, the new LimeWire is the first Web3 subscription platform for artists, brands and creators.
Xai
Blockchain Gaming Developed For Mass Adoption
Sentry Node, 2023
Xai was developed to enable real economies and open trade in the next generation of video games. With Xai, potentially billions of traditional gamers can own and trade valuable in-game items in their favorite games for the first time, without the need to use crypto-wallets. Anyone can support the Xai network by operating a node which allows them to receive network rewards and participate in governance. Xai is developed by Offchain Labs leveraging Arbitrum technology.