List of companies in Placeholder (venture capital)'s investment portfolio
Name | Description | Industry | Official Website | Location | ||
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Polkadot is a blockchain network built to enable Web3 and decentralized internet. | ||||||
Ethereum is an open-source, public, distributed blockchain computing platform featuring smart contract (scripting) functionality, which facilitates online contractual agreements. | ||||||
Agoric is a proof-of-stake (PoS) chain utilizing secure JavaScript smart contracts to rapidly build and deploy DeFi. | ||||||
Filecoin is a blockchain-based storage and cryptocurrency created by Protocol Labs backed by an application token. | ||||||
Aleo is a decentralized autonomous organization offering privacy applications for blockchain ecosystems. | ||||||
Balancer is an automated portfolio manager and trading platform on Ethereum | ||||||
Gearbox is a generalized leverage protocol. | ||||||
Celestia is a stripped-down layer-1 blockchain that focuses solely on ordering transactions and making the data for transactions available. The blockchain does not handle smart contracts or perform computations. | ||||||
Nexus Mutual is a decentralized insurance protocol built on Ethereum that allows members to join and share risk. | ||||||
Decred (Decentralized Credit) is a self funded cryptocurrency project | ||||||
0x is an open protocol for creating decentralized exchanges using Ethereum. It was founded in 2017 and its team works in multiple global locations. | ||||||
Numerai is a hedge fund with stock market trades determined by crowdsourced artificial intelligence models. The best models receive rewards in the form of a cryptographic token called Numeraire (NMR) on the Ethereum blockchain. | ||||||
API3 is a DAO-driven project to build dAPIs - fully decentralized, native blockchain APIs - that will be configured, managed, insured and monetized at scale with API3 DAO. | ||||||
Victoria VR is a Blockchain-based MMORPG in virtual reality built on Unreal Engine, created and owned by its users. | ||||||
P2P Validator is a company with a platform that helps investors compound their cryptocurrency investments by participating in staking. | ||||||
Forta is the first decentralized community-based security platform to prevent or mitigate smart contract exploits as they occur | ||||||
Hoo Token is a company founded by Vitalik Buterin. | ||||||
Aragon is a platform for decentralized governance and DAOs founded in 2017 by Luis Cuende. | ||||||
Sarcophagus is a decentralized Dead Man's Switch. | ||||||
Orca is a decentralized cryptocurrency exchange (DEX) on the Solana blockchain. Orca allows users to swap tokens written on the Solana blockchain. It is the Solana equivalent of Uniswap or SushiSwap, which are DEXes that exist on the layer 1 blockchain of Ethereum. | ||||||
Radicle is a peer-to-peer stack for building software together. | ||||||
Ceramic is a public, decentralized, censorship-resistant network for managing mutable information on the open internet without databases or servers | ||||||
Across is a cross-chain bridge protocol that allows users to execute transactions between chains. | ||||||
Obol is a Multi-Operator Validator Network | ||||||
Orchid Labs is a company developing the open source Orchid protocol, which is a peer-to-peer network and online marketplace for selling and buying internet bandwidth. |
