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nfr (non-fungible returns) is a crypto native fund based in Seoul and NYC. The founders are from Coinbase M&A/Ventures, Kyber Network and have been participating in DeFi since Day 0 (🍣, 🍠, etc.)

We focus on crypto native/degen deal flow and early-stage Asian deals.

We advise crypto projects to help them build the right global narrative, network, and strategy. We also help with tokenomics and give product feedback from a crypto native perspective.

Justin Lee

Tiger Kim

nfr ventures

Archimedes

Yuga Labs is Creators of  Bored Ape Yacht Club. Founded by four friends, the company began as a text message — "Let's make a NFT".

The company’s flagship collection, Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC), launched in April 2021, with each NFT doubling as a membership to the community. Inspired by the early crypto adopters who aped in, struck gold, yet always seemed bored – 10,000 Bored Apes were minted for roughly $200 at the time.

The NFT collection sold out in the early morning of May 1st, 2021, and an incredible community began to form almost immediately.

That community soon multiplied with the creation of 10,000 dog companions for the apes (Bored Ape Kennel Club) and 20,000 Mutant Apes (Mutant Ape Yacht Club), half of which were minted via a first-of-its-kind mechanic involving serums.

2022 was a year of rapid growth for Yuga. The Yugaverse expanded beyond BAYC with the announcement of Otherside, a gamified metaverse. Popular NFT collections CryptoPunks, Meebits, and 10KTF also joined the party, bringing new IP, reach, and community to Yuga.

Through all of this growth and innovation, the team has continued to prioritize the web3 values of decentralization and ownership. Yuga has been a pioneer at every turn, including hosting exclusive festivals, events, merch drops, and collaborations accessible to holders of NFTs.

Most notably, Yuga decentralized the IP rights of Bored Apes, Punks, and Meebits, granting holders rights to the underlying art. This created opportunities for the community of NFT holders to leverage the utility of their NFT - creating their own brands and communities.

BAYC has become the world's most recognizable NFT collection and Yuga itself has become the fastest-growing startup in web3.

All roads lead to Otherside – the first metaverse that includes the community in the development process. Otherside rejects the walled gardens and closed networks of traditional gaming spaces in favor of interoperability and access, inviting everyone to play and create.

Yuga Labs

Ideas By Nature is a Blockchain Agency with expertise in branding, user experience design and blockchain applications development located in Denver, Colorado. Ideas By Nature’s proficiencies include, but are not limited to: Web3, DAPPlications, Drupal, Wordpress and CMS Web Design & Development, ReactJS Development, JavaScript, NodeJS and PHP Programming, Native Web and Mobile Application Development (.NET, PHP, HTML, CSS, C+, Objective-C, iOS, Android). In addition to advanced software development at both the consumer and enterprise levels. 

Working alongside leading blockchain technology products and teams since 2013, we provide high quality custom design and solutions. We build teams and skills around our clients, augmenting and accelerating our clients products. 

Our methodology and processes for scoping are designed for cultivating and understanding an idea. Beyond that thorough understanding, we ensure that your project is completed successfully, maintaining the goals and value propositions behind each business.

Ideas by Nature

Loans backed by your cryptocurrency. Loans for Bitcoin and Ether. Get dollars today using your crypto as collateral - without having to sell it.

​​BlockFi offers the ability to leverage cryptocurrency to obtain USD loans. The company operates in over 45 U.S. states and is backed by leading investors Galaxy Digital Ventures LLC, ConsenSys Ventures, and SoFi. BlockFi was founded by Zac Prince and Flori Marquez in 2017 and started lending in January 2018. Learn more about their company and team at BlockFi.com.

BlockFi

The EEA is a member-led industry organization whose objective is to drive the use of Ethereum blockchain technology as an open-standard to empower ALL enterprises. Our members are thought leaders from around the globe with a shared vision to create enterprise-ready solutions.

The Enterprise Ethereum Alliance connects Fortune 500 enterprises, startups, academics, and technology vendors with Ethereum subject matter experts.

Enterprise Ethereum Alliance

Ambitious individuals leave places like Google, Goldman Sachs and Stanford to join EF. Why? Because starting a startup is the highest impact thing you can do with your life. 

EF is the best place to find a co-founder, build a company and access the world’s best investors. We've helped build over 140 technology companies, collectively worth over $1bn.

We believe the world’s most important companies are created when smart, committed, and diverse individuals come together and form a breakthrough insight. 

With each cohort at EF, we bring together extraordinary people to form companies with ambitious and unique visions for the future. EF helps these entrepreneurs — from the very beginning of their journey — to form teams, choose a problem to work on, develop a differentiated approach, and fundraise from the world's best investors. 

Since 2011, we have built and funded more deep tech startups than any other investor. Magic Pony Technology was one of the largest AI exits of 2016, and the 140+ startups we have built are now worth more than $1 billion. EF is your best shot to build a globally important company. 

We are backed by Reid Hoffman, Greylock Partners, Mosaic Ventures, Founders Fund, Lakestar Capital, and Deep Mind founders Demis Hassabis and Mustafa Suleyman.

Entrepreneur First

From idea to IPO and beyond, Sequoia helps the daring build legendary companies.

Sequoia is a venture capital focused on energy, financial, enterprise, healthcare, internet, and mobile startups. The firm helps a small number of daring founders build legendary companies. Its spurs them to push the boundaries of what’s possible. The firm seeks to invest in all sectors with a focus on energy, financials and financial services, healthcare and healthcare services, Internet, mobile, outsourcing, and technology.

The company was founded by Don Valentine in November 1972 and is based on Menlo Park, California.

Sequoia Capital

Crescent is a passive cryptocurrency index manager. The firm provides complexity-free access to systematically diversified cryptocurrency portfolios.

The firm's flagship strategy is the Crescent 20 Index Fund - a privately managed digital asset index fund focused on capturing the returns of the "investment grade"​ crypto universe with a passive, rules-based approach. The strategy adjusts for volatility, liquidity, and safe storage capabilities and is designed to be a complexity-free access vehicle for investors. The Fund is held in 100% cold storage and is rebalanced monthly. The firm also provides cold storage consulting services and digital asset investment research. The firm's co-founders all started their careers at Goldman Sachs and have other experience in hedge funds and venture capital.

Funds are offered privately to accredited investors.

Crescent Crypto

Connecting every person, every merchant, every financial service, every currency. Everywhere. CENTRE is a governed network powered by price-stable crypto assets.

centre

The Ethereum Foundation’s mission is to promote and support Ethereum platform and base layer research, development and education to bring decentralized protocols and tools to the world that empower developers to produce next generation decentralized applications (dapps), and together build a more globally accessible, more free and more trustworthy Internet.

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