Market Segment Accelerator

Focused on IoT

Accelerator

#Startups

#Accelerator

Located in Taiwan.

Market Segment Accelerator

Focused on Knowledge Management

Accelerator

#Startups

#Accelerator

Market Segment Accelerator

Focused on Network of startups

Accelerator

#Startups

#Accelerator

Located in Prague, Czechia.

Market Segment Accelerator

Focused on Blockchains

Accelerator

Located in Zurich, Switzerland.

Launched originally in 2015 as the Chicago Bitcoin Center. The hub provides educational resources, space and an ecosystem hub for all things blockchain.

Market Segment Incubator

Focused on Community, Education, Innovation

Accelerator

#Accelerator

Located in Chicago.

Personalities involved in Chicago Blockchain Center include Matthew Roszak.

Dignyfy is a strategy hub specializing in Blockchain and dApp consulting, PR, Marketing, Education and Development.

Market Segment Accelerator

Focused on Consulting, Business Services, PR/Marketing

Accelerator

#Accelerator

HODL is a venture capital fund and company builder with offices in New York City, London, and Seoul. We build and invest early with entrepreneurs that use digital assets and blockchain technology to solve real problems.

Market Segment Accelerator

Focused on Incubators, Venture Capital

Accelerator

#Accelerator

Located in London.

Personalities involved in HODL.vc include Ivan Soto-Wright, Victor Faramond.

Focused on high-tech - AI, cryptography, virtual reality.

Market Segment Accelerator

Focused on AI, cryptography, virtual reality

Accelerator

#Accelerator

Located in Seattle.

Incubator focusing on lean startups and freelancers that want to start in the blockchain technology. Provides tools, funding and networking opportunities. To apply, entrepreneurs must submit a feasible and well researched business model proposal that gets thoroughly vetted. After admission, funding is released by milestones (for instance after MVP completion). Startups that are part of Scalable Labs can leverage the pool of freelance talent that the incubator has at disposal.

Market Segment Incubator

Focused on Startups

Accelerator

#Accelerator

Located in Orange County, US.

Personalities involved in Scalable Labs include Rick Tuinenburg.

Accelerator focusing on developing countries.

Market Segment Accelerator

Focused on Startup mentoring, Community

Accelerator

#Accelerator

Located in San Francisco, US.

Market Segment Accelerator

Focused on IoT

Accelerator

#Accelerator

Market Segment Accelerator

Focused on Incubators

Accelerator

#Accelerator

Located in West Palm Beach.

The leading nordic tech incubator with a whole host of strategic partnerships and also accolades. They organize or take part events nearly every week, focusing on fintech, innovation and sustainability. Applications for new startups are open and available from the website. TheFactory provides workspace in central Oslo, legal help and backoffice support. Accepted startups receive funding through TheFactory angels (100-500k NOK).

Market Segment Accelerator

Focused on Fintech, Sustainability, Credit Risk, SMEs, Marketplaces

Accelerator

#Accelerator

Located in Oslo, Norway.

Personalities involved in TheFactory include Ingar Bentsen.

TheFactory partnered with KPMG, Nordea, Santander, Oslo Fintech Hub.

Web3 Ventures provide the business support for promising sustainable blockchain projects in the area of fintech and international trade. They provide guidance, security advisory and ICO management.

Market Segment Accelerator

Focused on Supply Chain Management, Trade Finance

Accelerator

#Accelerator

Located in Amsterdam.

Personalities involved in Web3 Ventures include Emanuele Francioni.

Market Segment Global Trade

Focused on Backoffice, Regulations, KYC/AML

Consortium

#HyperledgerFabric

#SMEs

Located in Dublin, Ireland.

Batavia (merged with we.trade) partnered with we.trade.

Integrated digital strategy for Dubai.

Market Segment Finance Technology

Focused on Digitalization, Smart Dubai

Consortium

#Digitalstrategy

Located in Dubai, UAE.

Dubai Blockchain Strategy partnered with Emirates Airlines, Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Company, Aramex.

Proof-of-concept demonstrating that distributed ledgers can bring cost savings and higher revenues in some areas of global trade. Launching a test in cooperation with the we.trade consortium.

Market Segment Global Trade

Focused on Trade platform, proof of concept.

Consortium

#Trade

#TradeFinance

#Accounting

Located in Hong Kong.

HK Trade Finance partnered with we.trade, Hong Kong Monetary Authority, HSBC, Deloitte.

Consortium blockchain that supports the TradeIX network.

Market Segment Blockchains

Focused on Blockchain technology for banking and trade.

Consortium

#ConsortiumBlockchain

Marco Polo partnered with R3, BNP, ING, Natwest, Barclays, Natixis, Commerzbank, Wells Fargo, ING.

Blockchain enterprise alliance with more than 200 members developing solutions for global trade and insurance available from the Corda marketplace.

Market Segment Finance Technology

Focused on Trade Finance, Insurance

Consortium

#Fintech

#Insurtech

#Trade

r3 partnered with Microsoft, Amazon, Intel.

Full insfrastructure for banks, asset managers and B2B networks.

Market Segment Finance Technology

Focused on Network of networks (alliance of blockchain consortiums)

Consortium

#Banking

#B2B

#Trade

TradeIX partnered with R3, BNP, ING, Natwest, Barclays, Natixis, Commerzbank, Wells Fargo, ING.

Joint venture of bank giants like HSBC and Deutsche, we.trade is a blockchain trade finance consortium focusing on SMEs.

Market Segment Trade Finance

Focused on Fintech, Backoffice, Regulations, KYC/AML

Consortium

#HyperledgerFabric

#SMEs

>> Similar to r3, TradeIX, HKTFP

Located in Dublin, Ireland.

Personalities involved in we.trade include Roberto Mancone.

we.trade partnered with HSBC, Deutsche, Santander, Societe Generale, Erste, Unicredit, e-Trade Connect.

Chainalysis is a blockchain analysis company that aims to set a standard for security evaluation, fraud detection and regulatory practices in the blockchain technology industry. They provide compliance and investigation services to legacy institutions like banks, corporations, or governments.

Market Segment Blockchain Analysis

Focused on Payments, Analytics, InfoSec

CryptoSec

#Security

#Blockchains

Located in New York, US / Germany, EU.

Raised funding 53.6 MM USD
via ICO

Personalities involved in Chainalysis include Michael Gronager (former COO of Kraken Bitcoin Exchange), Jonathan Levin.

Chainalysis partnered with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Sozo, Accel, Benchmark.

CipherTrace is a security and forensics company that focuses on AML, compliance and monitoring for organizations. They also provide software for blockchain security researchers.

Market Segment Cryptocurrency Security

Focused on AML, Payments, Compliance, Forensics

CryptoSec

#Audits

#Compliance

#Monitoring

Located in San Francisco, US.

Raised funding 18.0 MM USD
via ICO

Personalities involved in CipherTrace include David Jevans, Shannon Holland, Stephen Ryan.

Argentinian startup for dApp security audits.

Market Segment dApp Security

Focused on Smart Contracts Audits

CryptoSec

#Consulting

#dApps

#Audits

Located in Buenos Aires, Argentins.

Crystal is a software-as-a-service application for blockchain security and compliance that was developed by the Bitfury Group. It is a product-based solution that comes in various degrees, based on what kind of licence you get - either as a web app or as an API or installed on premises.

Market Segment Blockchain Security Software

Focused on AML, Monitoring, Compliance, Prevention

CryptoSec

#SaaS

#Product

>> Similar to TraceTo.io

Located in Amsterdam, NL.

Crystal Blockchain partnered with Bitfury.

Decenter is a research hub focused on developing on the Ethereum blockchain, but they have also had a success as sevice provider of smart contract auditing.

Market Segment dApp DEvelopment

Focused on Smart Contracts Audits

CryptoSec

#Research

#Consulting

#Audits

Located in Belgrade, Serbia.

Decenter partnered with BlockCollider, Bet Dex.

Recognized as one of the leading UK’s startups, Elliptic provides blockchain analytics to manage risk and meet regulatory compliance on a wide range of blockchains (Bitcoin, Litecoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum and more). They can also do criminal forensics for cryptocurrencies, having most expertise in money laundering flow investigations on Bitcoin blockchain.

Market Segment Cryptocurrency Security

Focused on AML, Payments, Compliance, Forensics

CryptoSec

#Audits

#Compliance

#Monitoring

Located in London, UK.

Raised funding 35.0 MM USD
via ICO

Personalities involved in Elliptic include Adam Joyce, James Smith, Tom Robinson.

Elliptic partnered with Santander, Digital Currency Group, SBI, 2017 GCHQ Cyber Accelerator.

Estonian tokenized cybersecurity company that specialized in smart contract auditing and network security services.

Market Segment dApp Security

Focused on Smart Contracts Audits

CryptoSec

#Consulting

#dApps

#Audits

Located in Kesklinna, Estonia.

OpenZeppelin provides blockchain security audits to verify that a distributed system works as intende. The audit includes review of the system’s architecture and codebase, plus a thorough report with actionable feedback. They got VC funded in 2017 with undisclosed amount.

Market Segment dApp Security

Focused on Smart Contracts Audits

CryptoSec

#Consulting

#dApps

#Audits

>> Similar to QuantStamp, Elliptic

Located in Distributed organization.

Personalities involved in OpenZeppelin include Demian Brener, Francisco Giordano.

OpenZeppelin partnered with brave, augur, coinbase, BitGo, ethereum foundation, cosmos.

QuantStamp is a full-stack blockchain tech consulting and development company. They help tokenized businesses to scale their operation and provide security audits and monitoring. They run their own security network on Ethereum and are tokenized themselves, having had an ICO in 2017.

Market Segment dApp Security

Focused on Smart Contracts Audits, BlockchainTech Security

CryptoSec

#SecurityAnalysis

#Consulting

#dApps

#Audits

Located in San Francisco, US.

Raised funding 3.2 MM USD
via ICO

Personalities involved in QuantStamp include Richard Ma, Steven Stewart.

QuantStamp partnered with OmiseGo, Nomura, Y Combinator.

ScoreChain provides transaction monitoring and fraudulent pattern detection reporting.

Market Segment Blockchain Analysis

Focused on Payments, Analytics, InfoSec

CryptoSec

#Security

#Blockchains

Located in Luxembourg.

ScoreChain partnered with CEX.IO.

The full-stack infosec company SmartDec provides a line of services around blockchain consulting, auditing and bespoke security tool development for blockchain tech startups. They are based in Israel with regional office in NYC and a threat research lab in Moscow.

Market Segment dApp Security

Focused on Blockchain Security Audits, Smart Contracts Audits, Analytics

CryptoSec

#ERC20TestSuite

#dApps

#Audits

Located in Rishon LeZion, Israel.

Personalities involved in SmartDec include Sergei Levin.

SmartDec partnered with kyber.network, Gladius, UTRUST.

Bakkt, a subsidiary of Intercontinental Exchange, is building an open, seamless global network to enable you to buy, sell, store and spend digital assets simply, safely and efficiently.

Market Segment Fintech

Focused on Cryptoasset Custody, Regulations, Institutional Trading, Institutional Investors

Crypto Custody

#Trading

#Exchange

#Custody

#Bitcoin

Located in Atlanta, USA (as Intercontinental Exchange).

Personalities involved in Bakkt include Kelly Loeffler.

Bakkt partnered with ICE, Microsoft, Starbucks, Boston Consulting Group.

Article / The grim side of Bakkt's potential consequences

Market Segment Personal Cryptocurrency Storage

Focused on Payments, Donations, Crypto wallet

Crypto Custody

#Storage

#Wallet

#PaymentGateway

#Merchants

Located in Luxembourg.

Raised funding 70.0 MM USD
via ICO

Coinbase started as a simple bitcoin wallet web-app that got popular by offering 10USD worth of BTC to every nearly anonymous signup. The Coinbase exchange later split into basic trading (directly from wallet with high fees) and PRO trading platform that became widely popular among daytraders in the US. Coinbase Custody is a subservice offered by Coinbase to institutions that trade cryptocurrencies but do not have the in-house tech to store them. The information about pricing is not public but since Coinbase Custody was the first player in this part of the blockchain industry, it is understandable that professional traders reported the costs of custody to be “outrageous”. In spite of the popularity of the platform across multiple verticals, Coinbase keeps raising VC (Round F in December 2018). It is possible the funding is necessary for further acquisitions - Coinbase has acquired for instance the hybrid DEX Paradex or the platform Earn.com.

Hot!

Market Segment Trading, Custody, Cryptocurrency Exchange, Wallet

Focused on Trading, Custody, DEX

Crypto Custody

#Trading

#TradingPlatform

#OTC

>> Similar to Bakkt, Fidelity, Bitfinex, Bithumb

Located in San Francisco, USA.

Raised funding 525.3 MM USD
via ICO

Personalities involved in Coinbase include Brian Armstrong, Fred Ehrsam.

Coinbase partnered with Andreesen Horowitz, Polychain, Fundamental Labs.

Fidelity is a financial services giant that will start crypto asset storage in 2019 along with a trade execution engine.

Market Segment Trading

Focused on Cryptoasset Custody, Regulations, Institutional Trading, Institutional Investors

Crypto Custody

#Trading

#Arbitrage

#Custody

#Bitcoin

#Ethereum

>> Similar to Bakkt, Universal Protocol Platform

Located in Boston, USA.

Fidelity partnered with Coinbase.

SatoshiLabs is the company that created the very first ‘cold storage’ device - the Trezor Wallet.

Market Segment Personal Cryptocurrency Storage, Crypto Custody, Institutional Crypto Storage

Focused on Hardware, Cryptoasset Storage Devices, Custody

Crypto Custody

#Custody

#ColdStorage

#CryptoassetStorageDevice

#Hardwarewallet

>> Similar to Ledger Wallet, KeepKey

Located in Czechia.

Personalities involved in SatoshiLabs include Marek Palatinus (Slush), Pavol Rusnak (Stick), Formerly Alena Vranova.

SatoshiLabs partnered with The B Foundation.

Market Segment Banking

Focused on Banking, Credit

Fintech

#Banking

#Fintech

Located in Sunnyvale.

Raised funding 0.025 MM USD
via ICO

Market Segment Insurance

Focused on InsurTech

Fintech

#Fintech

#Insurtech

#Trade

Located in San Francisco, USA.

Transparency protocol for decentralized economy. First blockchain tech project to receive capital from government-backed initiatives and funds. Actively contributing to Hyperledger and Kubernetes.

Market Segment Legal & Regulatory

Focused on Transparency as a Service, Governmental grands, Fundraising

Fintech

#Fundraising

#SocialImpact

#FinancialServices

#PersonalIdentity

Located in Dublin, Ireland.

Raised funding 1.0 MM USD
via ICO

Personalities involved in AID:Tech include Enterprise Ireland, Techstars, Blockasset Ventures, Expo 2020 Dubai.

AID:Tech partnered with Wachsman, AmaZix.

Market Segment B2B

Focused on Payments, Trading

Fintech

#Payments

Located in Helsinki.

Market Segment Remittance

Focused on Remittance

Fintech

#Payments

Located in India.

Having started as a simple service for topping up your prepaid phone card with Bitcoin, since 2014 the startup expanded into a more complete ecommerce solution. Bitrefill is currently expanding out of EU and has joined an initiative to develop a LN protocol for Bitcoin.

Hot!

Market Segment Ecommerce

Focused on Shopping, Ecommerce

Fintech

#LightningNetwork

#Ecommerce

#Payments

>> Similar to Wyre, Wirex

Located in Stockholm.

Raised funding 2.0 MM USD
via ICO

Personalities involved in Bitrefill include Sergej Kotliar, Patrick Stiller, Charlie Lee.

Bitrefill partnered with Poseidon Group, Fulgur Ventures, BHB Network, Chainside, inbitcoin.

Market Segment Remittance

Focused on Payments, Trading

Fintech

#Poloniex

#Remittance

#Technology

#Fiat-Crypto

Located in Boston, USA.

Raised funding 246.0 MM USD
via ICO

Market Segment Identity Management

Focused on Identity

Fintech

#KYC/AML

>> Similar to Selfkey, traceto.io

Located in San Francisco, USA.

Raised funding 35.75 MM USD
via ICO

Market Segment Finance Technology

Fintech

Located in Singapore.

Market Segment Remittance

Focused on Remittance

Fintech

Located in Manila.

Raised funding 10.0 MM USD
via ICO

Market Segment Finance Technology

Fintech

Located in San Francisco, USA.

Market Segment Fintech

Focused on Legal

Fintech

Located in Stanford, USA.

Raised funding 1.5 MM USD
via ICO

Blockchain-based marketplace for mergers & acquisition, intellectual property and tech solution trading. As for now, without a competition in the blockchain tech space.

Market Segment Smart Contracts for Backoffice

Focused on M&A

Fintech

#IP

#IntellectualProperty

#Legal

#Acquisitions

>> Similar to Blocknotary, traceto.io

Located in Estonia.

Raised funding 8.0 MM USD
via ICO

Personalities involved in Lexit include Amir Kaltak, Waijid Khilji, Jason Corbett.

Lexit partnered with Selfkey.

Market Segment Finance Technology

Fintech

Located in Vancouver.

Raised funding 0.2 MM USD
via ICO

Nexo is a regulated financial institution that fills out the inefficiencies in lending markets, especially within the digital economy. The main product of Nexo are cryptocurrency-backed loans. Nexo emerged from an older and more broadly focused European consumer finance fintech Credissimo.

Hot!

Market Segment P2P lending, Fintech, Bitcoin Loans

Focused on Banking, Credit

Fintech

#Lending

#P2P

#Interest

>> Similar to Salt Lending

Located in USA (Originally Bulgaria).

Personalities involved in Nexo include Michael Arrington, Asen Benev, Constantine Krastev.

Nexo partnered with BitGo, onfido, TrueUSD.

Press / SALT Lending on the inquiries about the state of their business

Press / Fintech company Nexo offers to buy SALT Lending

Market Segment B2B

Fintech

Located in Santa Cruz.

Raised funding 9.0 MM USD
via ICO

Market Segment Blockchains

Fintech

Located in San Francisco, USA.

Market Segment Remittance

Fintech

#Banking

#Fintech

>> Similar to ZED Network

Located in San Francisco, USA.

Raised funding 86.5 MM USD
via ICO

Market Segment Credit

Fintech

Located in Mountain View, USA.

Market Segment Trading

Fintech

Located in Delaware.

Raised funding 0.12 MM USD
via ICO

Blockchain technology initiative for compliant decentralized trading, supported by the DCG or Tim Draper.

Market Segment Remittance

Focused on Fiat-Crypto

Fintech

#RegTech

#Compliance

#DecentralizedFiatTrading

>> Similar to ZED Network, MakerDAO

Located in San Francisco, USA.

Raised funding 8.61 MM USD
via ICO

Personalities involved in Wyre include Tim Draper.

Wyre partnered with MakerDAO.

Press / Wyre acquired Hedgy, platform for smart contracts on Bitcoin

Platform modernizing the remittance business via the Stellar network, currently organizing a token sale and an airdrop.

Market Segment Fintech

Focused on Remittance

Fintech

#Stellar

>> Similar to Ripple

Located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Personalities involved in ZED Network include Alan Safahi.

Bethereum is an innovative social betting solution built on the Ethereum blockchain. Primarily a sports book, users can wager on sports events or participate in airdrop games with the platform’s native Bether token.

Market Segment Native Crypto Sports Betting

Focused on Ethereum Casino, Ethereum Gambling

Gambling

#ETH

#Sportsbook

Located in Hong Kong.

Personalities involved in Bethereum include Peter Gal, Martin Herman, Giacomo Tognoni, Philip Staehelin, Alex Zelvin, Stanislav Sebest.

Bethereum partnered with IDEX, CoinTiger, AERUM.

Cloudbet is a bitcoin gambling site licensed by E-Gambling Montenegro. They run crypto betting on sports events and also a bitcoin casino with entertainment and the classic games that you know from any online casino. In 2019, Cloudbet has been running a bonus campaign every Thursday for Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash deposits.

Market Segment Native Crypto Betting

Focused on Sportsbook

Gambling

#NativeCryptoBetting

>> Similar to Nitrogen Sports

Located in Montenegro.

The first bitcoin sports betting platform that is anonymous, but filters access based on IP address. If you are allowed access, you can bet in bitcoin anonymously & securely on #NFL #MLB #NHL #NCAA #UCL #eSports. Nitrogensports also has a bitcoin casino with Blackjack, Poker & Dice.

Market Segment Native Crypto Betting

Focused on Sportsbook, Casino

Gambling

#Casino

#Gambling

#Sportsbook

>> Similar to Cloudbet

Located in EU.

Primedice is the original Bitcoin dice site that has been operating since 2013.

Market Segment Native Crypto Gambling

Focused on Dice, Entertainment

Gambling

#Casino

#Gambling

#Gaming

Satoshi Dice is a decentralized application, or dApp, where players can instantly roll dice after sending in a Bitcoin Cash deposit.

Market Segment Native Crypto Gambling

Focused on Dice, Entertainment

Gambling

#BCH

#Casino

#Gambling

#Dice

Located in Decentralized.

Axiom Zen is mostly known thanks to CryptoKitties, but the company does more than just game development. They quickly identified dApp games as a killer app for blockchain in Asia, and adjusted accordingly. They call themselves “an idea accelerator and builder” though. Their second most popular product is Zenhub, product management software used by NASA and companies like SONY or Google.

Market Segment Game Developer

Focused on Innovation Studio, Game development studio, Enterprise software builder

Gaming

#CryptoKitties

Located in Vancouver, Canada.

Raised funding 12.0 MM USD
via ICO

Personalities involved in Axiom Zen include Roham Gharegozlou.

Axiom Zen partnered with Fuel Games.

Cryptokitties / 谜恋猫 is a blockchain-based game that allows players to purchase, collect, breed and sell various types of virtual cats. In December 2017 a cryptokitty sold for 100k USD. It is still the most popular decentralized game with about 400 DAU in Sep 2018 and the game with largest ETH transaction volume.

Market Segment Decentralized Game

Focused on Virtual Pet

Gaming

#Blockchain-basedGame

#Ethereum

#Collectible

>> Similar to Etheremon, MyCryptoHeroes

Located in Axiom Zen: Vancouver, Canada.

Personalities involved in Cryptokitties (dApp Game) include Animoca, Benny Giang, Bryce Bladon, Dieter Shirley, Fabiano Soriani, Guile Gaspar, Mack Flavelle, Mik Naayem, Roham Gharegozlou.

Cryptokitties (dApp Game) partnered with Union Square Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz.

Studio that aims to rebuild the future of gaming with blockchain technology. Their vision goes that the invention of blockchain changed how value is defined and therefore it is needed to create new business models for relevant industries. In December 2018 raised 200 million yen through Gumi Group and are currently hiring for tech and non-tech positions.

Market Segment Game Developer

Focused on Game development studio

Gaming

#MyCryptoHeroes

Located in Tokyo, Japan.

Raised funding 1.85 MM USD
via ICO

Personalities involved in double jump Tokyo include Koen Uno, Tadashi Miyazaki.

double jump Tokyo partnered with Gumi Group, DLE Group, EMONT Alliance.

Etheremon is a decentralized game on the ETH blockchain where players can own and train Ether Monsters (Mons) who can then explore game sites and gain tokens that can be further exchanged. Etheremon is the second most popular blockchain game by DAU after Cryptokitties. Etheremon is developing a module on Zilliqa blockchain making use of their blockchain grant (undisclosed amount).

Market Segment Decentralized Game

Focused on Ether Monsters

Gaming

#Collectible

#Ethereum

#Zilliqa

>> Similar to CryptoKitties, MyCryptoHeroes

Located in EMONT Alliance: Singapore.

Personalities involved in Etheremon (dApp Game) include Jake Tran.

Etheremon (dApp Game) partnered with EMONT Alliance, Kyber Network.

Australian game development studio founded in June 2018 and funded in seed round by Coinbase, Sora Ventures, Nirvana and Continue Capital. Fuel Games focus on blockchain gaming exclusively, having developed a platform for speedy integration of cryptoassets into existing games, no middleware-token needed.

Market Segment Game Developer

Focused on Game development studio, Deployment platform

Gaming

#ApolloPlatform

#GodsUnchained

#CryptoKitties

>> Similar to Axiom Zen, double jump, Platinum Egg

Located in Fuel Bros Pty. Ltd.: Sydney, Australia.

Raised funding 2.4 MM USD
via ICO

Personalities involved in Fuel Games include James Ferguson, Robbie Ferguson.

Fuel Games partnered with Axiom Zen (CryptoKitties), Coinbase, Nirvana Capital, Continue Capital.

Press / Fuel Games and Cryptokitties bring you "The Cat in the Pack" until the end of January 2019

Casual esports dApp game by Fuel Bros Digital Ventures, the creators of Etherbots. Players engage in battles and collect rare tokenized cards.

Market Segment Decentralized Game

Focused on Collectibles, eSports

Gaming

#Ethereum

#Gaming

>> Similar to Etheremon, MyCryptoHeroes

Located in Fuel Bros Pty. Ltd.: Sydney, Australia.

Personalities involved in GodsUnchained (dApp Game) include James Ferguson.

GodsUnchained (dApp Game) partnered with Coinbase, Continue Capital, Nirvana Capital, Sora Ventures.

MCH is a blockchain game where players purchase Heros and game extensions, then send Heroes to acquire territories. There are free Heroes available too and playing MCH does not cost gas as the game runs on the Loom Network ETH side chain. Developed Heroes can be sold on a marketplace, the game comes with a game money (GUM) and has ICO in Sep 2018.

Market Segment Decentralized Game

Focused on Heroes

Gaming

#RPG

#Blockchain-basedGame

#Ethereum

#Collectible

>> Similar to Etheremon

Located in double jump.tokyo Co., Ltd.: Tokyo, Japan.

Raised funding 0.0 MM USD
via ICO

MyCryptoHeroes (dApp Game) partnered with EMONT Alliance, Go Wallet, Play dApp, WAX, OTAKU Coin, Token Pocket.

OpenSea is a peer-to-peer marketplace for tokenized digital goods. It is mostly used as an independent marketplace for crypto collectibles - unique collectible digital assets that gamers can gain when playing a blockchain game. These assets often come in small series and sometimes have properties that give their owner an edge in the game, which then enables the player to earn more of the in-game token which has a monetary value. Some collectibles have high value only because they are rare, though.

Hiring!

Market Segment Marketplace for Collectibles

Focused on Collectibles, Trading

Gaming

#Collectible

#Ethereum

#ERC-721

>> Similar to Looksrare

Located in San Francisco, USA.

Raised funding 2.1 MM USD
via ICO

Personalities involved in Opensea include Alex Atallah, Devin Finzer.

Opensea partnered with Coinbase Ventures, Blockstack.

Press / Cubego launches collab with OpenSea with a promotion for 11 - 12 December 2018

Development studio active since 2002 that has created more than 100 games, some of them on contract for bigger platforms. They recently added blockchain gaming to their portfolio, having focused on mobile games and PS2 before.

Market Segment Game Developer

Focused on Game development studio

Gaming

#ShiningForceNeo

#RiseofMana

Located in Tokyo, Japan.

Personalities involved in Platinum Egg include Nariya Takemura.

Platinum Egg partnered with BitMatrix.

AI-driven news feed and platform for overall fan engagement. Fans collect reward in FAN tokens that can be exchanged for merchandise, tickets, special experience or fiat.

Market Segment Fan Engagement

Focused on Fan Engagement, Reward for action

Sportstech

#FanEngagement

#Rewardforaction

Located in London, UK.

Personalities involved in Fan360 include Katja Gersak, Kevin Harrington (Shark Tank), Angel Di Maria, Gianluigi Buffon.

Fan360 partnered with RCD Espanyol.

Globatalent is the blockchain-based tool where clubs and players can fund themselves by selling their future revenue rights and all fans can invest in their idols. Fans can tokenize, trade and support their favorite clubs and sports idols.

Market Segment Management

Focused on Future revenue trading, Financing

Sportstech

#Liquidity

#Marketplace

Located in Zug, Switzerland.

Personalities involved in Globaltalent include Sunil Bhardwaj, Ferran Martinez, Inaki Cabrera.

Globaltalent partnered with ELOS, brandcrypt, SponB, DEKALABS.

Inoovi or Infinivi is the issuer of IVI, utility token to access or participate on special sales and events (assist private trainings, access VIP salons, receive ticket discounts).

Market Segment Fan Engagement

Focused on Reward for action

Sportstech

#FanEngagement

#Rewardforaction

Located in Hong Kong.

Inoovi partnered with Clube Atletico Paranaese.

First fully integrated football club stock exchange and fan marketplace on blockchain.

Market Segment Fan Engagement

Focused on Marketplace

Sportstech

#Marketplace

#Stellar

Located in London, UK.

LFE (London Football Exchange) partnered with Stellar, Lighyear, CMS Law Tax, SoccerEx, Penta, World Football Summit, F6S.

Sports and health ecosystem on the blockchain powered by user-generated and user-controlled data. The LYM token can be used for purchases on an in-platform marketplace with 500+ fitness trainers.

Market Segment Data & Analytics

Focused on Health & Fitness, Metabolic Data

Sportstech

#Fitness

#MetabolicData

#Marketplace

Located in Vilnius, Lithuania.

Personalities involved in Lympo include Ada Jonuse, Pat Brown, Marius Silenskis, Justas Kregzde.

Lympo partnered with Smackway, Gympro, Crypto Tax & Payments, Blockchain for Healthcare and Medical Research, Blockchain for sports alliance.

Fans buy, trade and execute ‘crowd-manager’ rights for their favourite football teams.

Market Segment Fan Engagement

Focused on Crowd Management, Reward for Action

Sportstech

#CrowdManagement

#Rewardforaction

#Football

#FanEngagement

Located in Malta.

Raised funding 20.0 MM USD
via ICO

Personalities involved in Socios include Alex Dreyfus.

Socios partnered with ChiliZ, Mediarex, Binance, OKEx.

Removing barriers in the financing of up-and-coming athletes. Uses SPF ERC20 token to manage the crowdfunding.

Market Segment Crowd management

Focused on Crowd Micro-Financing

Sportstech

Located in London, UK (as SportyFi Ltd).

Personalities involved in Sportyco include Charlie Shrem, Ronaldinho Gaucho.

Perlin is a decentralized marketplace that makes use of underutilized computational power in everyday smart-devices to make supercomputing accessible. This has a wide range of B2C and B2B applications. One such possible application is the backoffice administration of global trade, for which the government of Singapore agreed to test Perlin.

Market Segment TradeTech

Focused on Global Trade, Cloud Computing, AI

Blockchain Technology

#WaveletLedger

#AvalancheProtocol

#POS

#DAG

#ComputeLayer

Located in Singapore.

Personalities involved in Perlin include Dorjee Sun, Kenta Iwasaki, Vincent Zhou, Rob Eldridge, Howard Wu, Taiyang Zhang.

Perlin partnered with GlobalBrains, Bitmain, OK Blockchain Capital, FBG, Blocktower, Arrington.

Press / The AI/Blockchain startup Perlin gets (not only) funding boost from a Japanese innovator

Other / Singapore Government Partners with Perlin to develop International Trade Platform on Blockchain

Other / Perlin Homepage

Market Segment Financial Exchanges

Focused on Trading

Trading

#Trading

#Exchange

#Custody

#Bitcoin

Located in Philadelphia, USA.

Market Segment Bitcoin Exchange

Focused on Trading, Custody

Trading

#Trading

#Exchange

#Custody

#Bitcoin

Located in Mountain View, USA.

Market Segment Bitcoin Exchange

Focused on Trading, Custody

Trading

#Trading

#Exchange

#Custody

#Bitcoin

Located in San Francisco, USA.

Bitfinex is one of the largest operating leveraged cryptocurrency exchanges still standing with reliable well maintained web platform and very secure API-based mobile app. Bitfinex survived losing money in a hack in August 2016 by issuing a redemption token the trading of which helped. In 2018 they released their first dApp trading platform ETHfinex and planned to release EOSdex, but in October 2019 these projects were rebranded into a new non-custodial DEX called DeversiFi. In addition to spot and margin markets (with publicly accessible lending) Bitfinex opened derivatives trading in September 2019. The organization operating Bitfinex exchange also operates the Tether IOU stablecoin which created some amount of controversy in 2018.

Market Segment Cryptocurrency Exchange

Focused on Large-scale Trading, OTC, DEX, Lending

Trading

#Trading

#OTC

#DEX

>> Similar to Coinbase, Kraken

Located in BVI (as iFinex).

Personalities involved in Bitfinex include Jean-Louis Van Der Velde, Phil G. Potter.

Bitfinex partnered with Tradingview.

Market Segment Trading

Focused on Financial Exchanges

Trading

Located in Portland.

Automated Trading

Market Segment Automated Trading

Trading

Located in London, UK.

Currently in beta with launch planned for Q3 2018, Covesting is a digital currency trading platform focused on copytrading - the real value for beginner traders.

Market Segment Trading

Focused on Trading

Trading

#Copytrading

#SocialTrading

>> Similar to LeverJ, CINDX, eToro, altcoin.io

Located in Gibraltar.

Raised funding 87.0 MM USD
via ICO

Personalities involved in Covesting include Dmitrij Pruglo, Tim Voronin.

Market Segment Investing

Focused on Personal Finance

Trading

Located in Palo Alto, USA.

Market Segment Blockchains

Focused on Exchange

Trading

>> Similar to Bithumb

Located in Seoul.

Raised funding 3.61 MM USD
via ICO

Market Segment Cryptocurrencies

Focused on Cryptoasset Exchange, OTC

Trading

#Trading

#TradingPlatform

#OTC

>> Similar to iFinex, Coinbase, LeverJ, IDEX

Located in USA.

Raised funding 5.0 MM USD
via ICO

Personalities involved in Kraken Digital Asset Exchange include Jess Powell.

Formerly LocalEthereum, the Ethereum marketplace dApp with smartcontract-based escrow system and encrypted messaging. Users hold their own private keys. Since November 2019 rebranded to LocalCryptos, adding non-custodial BTC trading built on native bitcoin scripts.

Market Segment P2P, OTC

Focused on Peer-to-peer marketplace

Trading

#Ethereum

#Bitcoin

#dApp

#Marketplace

Located in Australia.

Personalities involved in LocalCryptos include Michael Foster.

Press / LocalCryptos, the non-custodial p2p platform, added a crypto-to-crypto exchange feature

Numerai is a crowd-sourced AI-run hedge fund and Erasure marketplace that provides free data feeds for machine learning, leveraging structure-preserving encryption.

Market Segment Trading

Focused on AI, Machine Learning, Hedge Fund

Trading

#Numeraire

#Erasure

#AI

>> Similar to Covesting, LeverJ

Located in San Francisco, USA.

Raised funding 7.5 MM USD
via ICO

Personalities involved in Numerai include Richard Craib, Fred Ehrsam, Joey Krug, Fred Wilson, Howard Morgan.

Numerai partnered with Union Square Ventures, Fred Ehrsam.

Market Segment Blockchains

Trading

Located in San Francisco, USA.

One of the oldest cryptocurrency exchanges, parent company of KeepKey and formerly the go-to place to quickly obtain an alternative cryptocurrency for bitcoin. Originally completely anonymous and often the place for stolen crypto to be exchanged into XMR. In 2018, ShapeShift implemented KYC and due to drop in demand the company had to lay off third of employees as announced on January 9th, 2019.

Market Segment Blockchains

Focused on Cryptocurrency Exchange, Hardware Wallets

Trading

#InstantExchange

#Keepkey

>> Similar to LocalBitcoins, LocalEthereum

Located in Switzerland.

Raised funding 2.125 MM USD
via ICO

Personalities involved in ShapeShift AG include Eric Voorhees.

TradeBlock offers financial institutions with a range of execution and analysis tools for digital currency markets. The company acts as a global source of data which shares analyses on market data relating to cryptocurrencies, trading, regulations, mining, protocol updates, block chain analysis, and economic developments.

Market Segment OTC

Focused on Liquidity, OTC, Data, Analysis

Trading

#OTC

#Data

#Analytics

#Markets

Located in New York City, USA.

Raised funding 20.5 MM USD
via ICO

Personalities involved in TradeBlock include Y Combinator, Andreessen Horowitz, Digital Currency Group, Fintech Collective.

TradingView operates an online community platform for traders of stock markets, forex and cryptocurrencies. It provides advanced tools for analyzing stock charts and researching financial markets that are customizable and can be released in public library for the community to use. 

Market Segment Trading

Focused on Charting Platform, Social Network

Trading

#StockTrading

#CryptoTrading

#MarketAnalysis

#Charting

#Forex

>> Similar to TensorCharts, Cryptowatch

Located in Westerville, USA.

Raised funding 40.8 MM USD
via ICO

Personalities involved in TradingView include Denis Globa, Stan Bokov, Konstantin Ivanov, Andrew Kirillov.

FTX.com and FTX.us are cryptocurrency trading platforms that offer a wide range of products for active traders. There are DeFi tokens, futures, preditiction markets, options, perpetual swap and tokenized stocks to choose from. For liquidity, FTX is partnering with Binance and Bitfinex so that traders always get a good experience even though the exchange is quite new.

Hot!

Market Segment Trading, Staking, Cryptocurrency Exchange

Focused on Trading, Derivatives, Tokenized Stock, Perps, DeFi

Trading

#DeFi

#Staking

#Trading

#Derivatives

>> Similar to Bitfinex, Binance, Deribit

Located in San Francisco, USA.

Personalities involved in FTX include Zane Tackett.

FTX partnered with Bitfinex, Binance.

Blockchain for advertising with strong team and interesting business partnerships.

Market Segment Blockchains

Focused on Advertising

Blockchain Technology

#Advertising

>> Similar to MetaX, RefToken

Located in Ontario, Canada.

Raised funding 14.0 MM USD
via ICO

Adbank partnered with Verasity, IAB.

Market Segment Cloud Infrastructure

Focused on Data

Blockchain Technology

Located in San Mateo.

Raised funding 3.1 MM USD
via ICO

Market Segment Platform

Focused on Application Platforms

Blockchain Technology

Located in New York City, USA.

Raised funding 57.5 MM USD
via ICO

Market Segment Data Security

Focused on Bitcoin

Blockchain Technology

#Bitcoin

#Technology

Located in Mountain View, USA.

Raised funding 76.0 MM USD
via ICO

Market Segment dApps

Focused on Messaging

Blockchain Technology

Located in San Francisco, USA.

Brave Software focuses on increasing browsing speed and safety for users, while growing ad revenue share for content creators. Brave aims to transform the online ad ecosystem with micropayments and a new revenue-sharing solution to give users and publishers a better deal, where fast, safe browsing is the path to a brighter future for the open web.

Market Segment Blockchains

Focused on Publishing, Advertising

Blockchain Technology

#WebBrowser

#Privacy

#BAT

#BasicAttentionToken

>> Similar to Adbank, MetaX

Located in San Francisco, USA.

Raised funding 42.0 MM USD
via ICO

Personalities involved in Brave include Brendan Eich.

Brave partnered with Founders Fund.

Centrifuge blockchain is an open decentralized operating system to globally connect active parties in supply chain. It allows even small businesses to transact in a global network, have their transaction status verified and at the same time retain all their private data. Favored by the suits, created by people from the supply chain business.

Market Segment Supply Chain Financing

Focused on Open source protocol for supply chain

Blockchain Technology

#Ethereum

#Sidechains

#Fintech

#Insurtech

>> Similar to EOS, Hijro, we.trade

Located in San Francisco, USA.

Raised funding 3.8 MM USD
via ICO

Personalities involved in Centrifuge include Maex Ament, Philip Stehlik, Martin Quensel, Steven Becker.

Centrifuge partnered with MakerDAO, Hokodo, Mosaic Ventures, Semantic Ventures, Blue Yard.

Market Segment Development APIs

Focused on Technology

Blockchain Technology

Located in San Francisco, USA.

Raised funding 43.7 MM USD
via ICO

Blockchain technology project to tokenize voting rights, known mainly in the esports and gaming community. Main claim to fame among people outside of those two niches: “Project backed by Binance.”

Market Segment Blockchains

Focused on Tokenization

Blockchain Technology

#Gaming

#eSports

#Sports

>> Similar to Funfair

Located in Malta.

Raised funding 27.0 MM USD
via ICO

Personalities involved in ChiliZ include Matthieu Pigasse, Xavier Niel, Alex Dreyfus, Thibault Pelletier.

ChiliZ partnered with Mediarex, Binance, Kosmos Capital, Ceyuan Ventures, FBG Capital, OKEx, Steven Nerayoff.

Market Segment Supply Chain Management

Blockchain Technology

Located in San Francisco, USA.

Raised funding 12.325 MM USD
via ICO

Platform integrating collaborative decentralized organizations

Market Segment DAOs

Blockchain Technology

Located in London, UK.

Market Segment Industrial Automation

Blockchain Technology

Located in Reno.

Raised funding 21.0 MM USD
via ICO

Originally business consulting, now branching into blockchain and innovative technologies

Focused on Blockchain venture studio.

Blockchain Technology

Located in London, UK.

Market Segment Sales Automation

Blockchain Technology

Located in Singapore.

Market Segment dApps

Focused on Messaging

Blockchain Technology

Located in London.

Market Segment Data & Analytics

Focused on Platform for data research.

Blockchain Technology

Located in London, UK.

Market Segment IoT

Focused on Internet of Things

Blockchain Technology

Located in Chicago, USA.

Market Segment Cyber Security

Blockchain Technology

Located in San Francisco, USA.

Raised funding 5.15 MM USD
via ICO

Perlin is a decentralized marketplace that makes use of underutilized computational power in everyday smart-devices to make supercomputing accessible. This has a wide range of B2C and B2B applications. One such possible application is the backoffice administration of global trade, for which the government of Singapore agreed to test Perlin.

Market Segment TradeTech

Focused on Global Trade, Cloud Computing, AI

Blockchain Technology

#WaveletLedger

#AvalancheProtocol

#POS

#DAG

#ComputeLayer

Located in Singapore.

Personalities involved in Perlin include Dorjee Sun, Kenta Iwasaki, Vincent Zhou, Rob Eldridge, Howard Wu, Taiyang Zhang.

Perlin partnered with GlobalBrains, Bitmain, OK Blockchain Capital, FBG, Blocktower, Arrington.

Press / The AI/Blockchain startup Perlin gets (not only) funding boost from a Japanese innovator

Other / Singapore Government Partners with Perlin to develop International Trade Platform on Blockchain

Other / Perlin Homepage

Market Segment Technology

Focused on Video Streaming

Blockchain Technology

Located in New York City, USA.

Raised funding 30.0 MM USD
via ICO

Market Segment SaaS

Blockchain Technology

Located in San Francisco, USA.

Raised funding 0.315 MM USD
via ICO

Market Segment Mobile Commerce

Blockchain Technology

Located in Cupertino.

Raised funding 1.5 MM USD
via ICO

Market Segment Blockchains

Blockchain Technology

Located in San Francisco, USA.

The WeChat on Ethereum - instant messaging with integrated functions.

Market Segment Encrypted Messaging

Focused on dApps, Social Networks

Blockchain Technology

Located in London, UK.

Market Segment Data Storage

Focused on Cloud Data Services

Blockchain Technology

#Storage

Located in Atlanta, USA.

Raised funding 2.0 MM USD
via ICO

UPP is a hybrid solution for blockchain interoperability

Market Segment Interoperability

Focused on Protocol

Blockchain Technology

#Custody

>> Similar to Polkadot, Cosmos, SmartBridge, Block Controller, Atomic Swaps

Personalities involved in Universal Protocol Platform include Dan Schatt, JuanPablo Thieriot, Tiago Ribeiro, Rui Marinho, Pavel Paramonov.

Universal Protocol Platform partnered with BitGo, PwC, Uphold, Cred (Libra Credit), Brave Browser, Blockchain at Berkeley.

Press / Universal Protocol Platform gets its first institutional service provider on board

Market Segment Politics

Blockchain Technology

Located in Boston, USA.

Raised funding 2.2 MM USD
via ICO

Market Segment Cryptocurrencies

Blockchain Technology

Located in Boulder, USA.

Scalable blockchain for decentralized applications focusing on high throughput and scalability.

Market Segment Platform

Focused on Scalability, High-Throuput

Blockchain Technology

#DappPlatform

#Gaming

#eSports

#Entertainment

>> Similar to Ethereum, EOS

Located in Singapore.

Raised funding 22.0 MM USD
via ICO

Personalities involved in Zilliqa include Max Kantelia, Prateek Saxena, Amrit Kumar, Jia Yaoqi.

Press / Zilliqa announced blockchain grants for technology developers

Catena is a German blockchain startup builder and investor, actively sourcing projects in scalability, identity management, KYC, AdTech and blockchain-based marketplaces. Catena provides entrepreneurs in residence, ICO service and full legal and operational support for new entrants. They also run a coworking office with event space in Berlin - the CryptoTank.

Market Segment Builder

Focused on Venture Builder, ICO Accelerator

Builders

#Accelerator

Located in Germany.

Personalities involved in Catena Capital include Miriam Neubauer, Michael Ambros, Gunther Schmidt, Fabian Spielberger.

Coinsilium is a venture builder, investor and advisor, supporting early-stage blockchain technology companies and the digital token economy. They were the first global blockchain accelerator to IPO already back in 2015. Coinsilium invested in projects like Factom, Rootstock or Elevate Health.

Market Segment Investor

Focused on Investing, Startup Builder, Consultancy, Seed Funding

Builders

#Accelerator

Located in UK & Gibraltar.

Personalities involved in Coinsilium include Eddy Travia, Malcolm Palle.

Ledger Project is an EU-funded venture builder for human-centric solutions in the blockchain space. They are currenntly building a portfolio of MVPs built around privacy by design, openness and citizen data sovereignity. Ledger Project receives funding from the EU and has the total of 5.6 MM EUR to invest. There is network access, partnerships, mentoring and experts available for each venture it supports.

Market Segment Builder

Focused on Business Network, Investor, Startup Studio, Advisory

Builders

#Accelerator

Located in EU.

Raised funding 6.304284 MM USD
via ICO

Ledger Project partnered with IOTA Foundation , decode, c-voucher, RobotUnion, Telefonica Open Innovation, bottish association.

Next Big Thing (NBT) is a Berlin-based IoT and blockchain company builder and VC. NBT focuses mainly on IoT, sensors, data processing and smart contracts. The model NBT follows is not that of full-fetched dedicated startup building with entrepreneurs in residence, but one of co-founding with equity stakes and strong advisory through a network of partners. Key NBT employees are very active and influential in Berlin’s startup and innovation space.

Market Segment Builder

Focused on Startup Studio, Investor, IoT - AI - Blockchain

Builders

#Accelerator

Located in Germany.

Personalities involved in Next Big Thing AG include Harald Zapp, Jasmin Skenderi, Sandra Panknin, Michael Bommer, Martin Buhl.

Outlier Ventures is an investor and builder focusing on IoT, AI, blockchain and broadly any kind of distributed or tokenized systems. They have offices in London, Chicago and Toronto and are very open to new pitches. They do not provide dedicated entrepreneurs in residence but they invest and their investees benefit from their extensive network of partners. The company is also active in the research area and organizes webinars and events.

Market Segment Investor

Focused on Investor, Partner, Advisor

Builders

#Accelerator

Located in UK, USA & CA.

Personalities involved in Outlier Ventures include Jamie Burke, Stephan Apel, Aron van Ammers, Rumi Morales.

Starkus is a venture builder and advisory for startups that provides backoffice support & expertise for new ventures in the blockchain tech industry. They specialize in strategizing, audits and legal advisory but they do not provide funding or entrepreneurs in residence.

Market Segment Advisor

Focused on Consultancy, Advisory

Builders

#Accelerator

Located in Argentina.

Personalities involved in Starkus include Brian Prilick, Cesar Levene, Nicolas Belgrano, Bernardo Chapar.

Thesis is a creative venture studio that focuses on how to bridge the crypto/real-world purchase gap. They mainly work with public blockchains, a lot with bitcoin. Part of their work ventures into enabling private data storage on public blockchains. Thesis follows the venture builder model, they participate in the actual building of the tech and are backed by larger organizations. Their main verticals are Data, Payments and Gaming.

Market Segment Builder

Focused on Venture Builder, Startup Studio, Investor, Public Blockchains

Builders

#Accelerator

Located in Atlanta, US.

Personalities involved in Thesis include Matt Luongo, Corbin Pon, Michael Gluzman, Andrew Nalbland.

Thesis partnered with Andreesen Horowitz, Polychain, Draper Associates, DHVC.

dlab was created by SOSV in 2018 to provide capital and resources to web3 and crypto projects creating more open, transparent, and participatory systems using blockchains and other decentralized technologies. dlab provides up to $250k in venture funding through their fully-remote program.

Hiring!

Market Segment Builder

Focused on Venture Builder, Accelerator, DeFi

Builders

#Builder

Located in New York, USA / Remote.

Personalities involved in dlab include Shawn Broderick, Nick Plante.

dlab partnered with Pantera.