Investments

Organizations

Caerus is a Venture Capital Fund and Venture Lab backed by the NEAR Foundation which sits at the intersection of where creators, talent and IP owners meet capital, technology and change makers. We back and build the next generation of platforms, services and applications which feed our cultural passions and positions creators and consumers at the heart of these new enterprises.

NEAR Foundation

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Signal Ventures is an investment firm specializing on technology in emerging cryptocurrencies. We invest in early stage blockchain startups and decentralized protocols.

Signal Ventures

Our venture team sources early stage investment opportunities through direct relationships, referrals from our investor members and founders, as well as connections to top startup incubators including Y Combinator, top seed stage VC firms such as First Round Capital, and top superangels. We first invest at the Seed and Series A stage, and seek to follow on in later rounds.

FundersClub

Genesis is an institutional trading firm focused on providing two-sided liquidity for digital currencies on a daily basis.  We make buying and selling large blocks of digital currency a simple, secure, and supported process. In addition to supporting over-the-counter trading of digital currencies and other illiquid assets, Genesis is also the marketing and distribution agent for the Bitcoin Investment Trust and the Ethereum Classic Trust. Genesis is a securities broker-dealer regulated by the SEC and FINRA and has its Bitlicense application pending review by NYS DFS.   

Since 2013, our team has traded over $750 million in digital currency volume on behalf of high net worth individuals and institutions. 

Genesis is a Digital Currency Group Company and is formerly known as the Trading Division of SecondMarket, Inc.

Genesis Trading

Dekrypt Capital is a leading investment firm focused on blockchain infrastructure, privacy-preserving technologies, and early-stage ventures. We invest in, mentor, and accelerate teams developing novel solutions to address the core issues of scalability, privacy, and interoperability for decentralized protocols and applications.

Dekrypt Capital

Lemniscap is an investment and advisory firm specializing in investments in emerging blockchain assets and advising early stage blockchain startups.

We believe blockchain technology will upend traditional business models, resulting in profound changes in the world economy. Our singular goal is to drive this change through our services.

Our team consists of talented people with backgrounds in financial markets, PE/VC, technology and entrepreneurship. We have been involved in the space since 2014 as both investors and advisors and can leverage deep relationships with other participants in the ecosystem.

Lemniscap

We believe we can only build the next generation of Pillar companies if we form a trusted partnership with founders of the companies we back. From our investment terms to the capabilities and support we provide, our mission is to align every step we take, every decision we make with the interests of entrepreneurs, right from the start.

As early-stage investors, many of our companies are ideas beginning to take flight; so we are investing in the people, the founders. We look for unstoppable founders who know how to blow through walls. Founders who rally people around their vision for the future and have the ability to create a swell of momentum around a market-transforming idea.

We co-founded Pillar with a group of 17 world-class executives, who have built some of the most substantial companies in Boston with a combined total of more than $30B in enterprise value. All are investors in our fund, and are active as hands-on advisors, mentors and board members to our entrepreneurs. An investment from Pillar is an investment from them.

Our partners are serial entrepreneurs with decades of operating experience in high-growth start-ups. We know what it’s like to build a team, a product, a community of customers. We know what it’s like to pour your time, energy and resources into scaling your company. That’s why we’re so committed to helping you align with the people and capabilities you need to win.

pillar

Chain is a blockchain infrastructure solution company that has been on a mission to enable a smarter and more connected economy since 2014. Chain offers builders in the Web3 industry services that help streamline the process of developing, and maintaining their blockchain infrastructures. Chain implements a SaaS model for its products that addresses the complexities of overall blockchain management. Chain offers a variety of products such as Ledger, Cloud, and NFTs as a service. Companies who choose to utilize Chain's services will be able to free up resources for developers and cut costs so that clients can focus on their own products and customer experience.

Chain

Greylock Partners, a Leading Silicon Valley Venture Capital Firm. Greylock Partners is a leading venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley.

Greylock Partners

BLUE HILL is a global network of talented individuals established to support projects, DApp development and blockchain technology innovations within the IOST blockchain ecosystem.

We work with the best developers and entrepreneurs in the industry to facilitate the growth and adoption of blockchain technology. Our vision is to unlock the potential of blockchain for online products and services and bring blockchain into the mainstream domain. We are en-trepreneurs supporting entrepre-neurs in this collaborative mission.

Caerus

Web3 VC and Venture Lab Unlocking Opportunity in Culture & Entertainment.

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