Investments

Organizations

Qi Capital, Finding Gems in Crypto Space. Investment signals from experienced anons. Research that gives you diamond-hands confidence.

Qi Capital

Retrograde

THORSTARTER

OlympusDAO

Illuvium

Anchor Protocol

Tokemak

Alpha Venture DAO

THORChain

Polemos

Terra

GameSwift

Edge Protocol

Angelic

Walden Bridge Capital is a leading cryptoasset investment firm based in Chicago. Our mission is to support the development of the emerging internet of value.

Walden Bridge Capital

MULTICOIN CAPITAL’s mission is to accelerate the transition from the centralized institutions of the industrial age to the decentralized institutions of the Internet age.

MULTICOIN CAPITAL

Oasis Labs, creating a privacy-first cloud computing platform on blockchain. Rethinking blockchain for the real world: Privacy-preserving smart contracts at scale.

High performance to support diverse applications, from games to machine learning. Unprecedented security and privacy for data and computation. Flexible and easy to use, with built-in machine learning and data analytics.

Oasis Labs

Bain Capital Ventures invests in seed to growth-stage startups that are using tech to disrupt existing markets or create entirely new ones. We are an affiliate of Bain Capital, a leading alternative investment firm with unparalleled access to Fortune 5000 companies.

Bain Capital Ventures

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

Lightspeed Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that is engaged in the consumer, enterprise, technology, and cleantech markets. It is focused in seed, early stage, later stage, expansion stage, start-up, growth companies, and incubation and has specialized in debt financing for start-up and growth companies.

Lightspeed Venture Partners invests in various sectors: enterprise, consumer, big data, bitcoin, enterprise technology, cleantech, mobile, internet, financial technology, cloud solutions, e-commerce, storage, media, networking, energy, and software, software-as-a-service, information technology, biotechnology, and social. It mainly invests in countries such as the United States, Europe, Israel, China, and India.Lightspeed Venture Partners was founded in 2000 and is based in Menlo Park, California with additional offices in Beijing, China; Shanghai, China; New Delhi, India; and Herzelia Pituach, Israel.

Lightspeed Venture Partners

We help build foundations for great businesses with a support platform providing founders at all stages with what they need, when they need it.

The House Fund is a pre-seed and seed stage venture capital fund investing in Berkeley's top student, faculty, and alumni startups. It helps build foundations for great businesses with a support platform providing founders at all stages with what they need, when they need it. It is working with exceptional founders to build the next generation of Berkeley’s top startups through our affiliated venture fund (The House Fund), accelerator program (The House Residency), and student community.

The House

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

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.