Electric Capital is an early-stage venture firm investing in the next generation of iconic crypto founders. We leverage deep technical expertise and an understanding of community governance, token economics, cryptography, and distributed systems to partner with top crypto founders We are often the first investors in a company and help founders from idea through launch and scale. We have backed projects and companies such as Anchorage, Bitwise, Celo, Coda, Dfinity, Lightning Labs, MobileCoin, NEAR, Oasis, and many more. Prior to starting Electric Capital we were investors in a variety of technology companies including Notion, Newfront Insurance, Optimizely, Cruise, Boom Supersonic, Color Genomics, and Threads. The founders of Electric Capital were previously successful serial entrepreneurs with executive experience at Facebook and Google.
Aurora is an Ethereum Virtual Machine created by the team at the NEAR Protocol, delivering a turn-key solution for developers to operate their apps on an Ethereum-compatible, high-throughput, scalable and future-safe platform, with low transaction costs for their users.
Aven is a financial services company that offers a unique product known as the Aven HELOC Card. This card combines the features of a credit card with the benefits of a home equity line of credit (HELOC). It allows users to access funds based on their home equity while providing the convenience of a traditional credit card. The Aven HELOC Card is designed to offer lower interest rates compared to standard credit cards, making it an attractive option for those looking to manage their finances more effectively. Users can make purchases and pay them off over time, leveraging their home equity to potentially save on interest costs.
Bitnomial was founded in 2014 to create a marketplace connecting native digital asset hedgers with institutional traders. Bitnomial offers improved derivatives exchange technology coupled with new digital asset settlement systems.
Celo is an open platform that makes financial tools accessible to anyone with a mobile phone. Its mission is to build a monetary system that creates the conditions of prosperity for all. The Celo ecosystem includes a decentralized, proof-of-stake blockchain technology stack (Celo Platform), a native asset (CELO), a stablecoin (cUSD) and the Celo Alliance for Prosperity, with over 100 organizations around the world, including Andreesen Horowitz, Anchorage, Coinbase, GSMA, Mercy Corps, Grameen Foundation, Prosegur, Abra, and cLabs, a service organization dedicated to growing and developing the Celo ecosystem.
Certora develops unique technology which supplements your programming experts and manual auditors by automatically detecting security vulnerabilities both before the code is deployed and during operation. The process is executed automatically and provides mathematical proofs of correctness on a daily basis. For carefully defined properties of your software, Certora technology can completely guarantee the absence of security vulnerabilities.
DerivaDEX is a community-governed derivatives exchange that unites performance and autonomy with the security of a decentralized exchange. It's a community-owned exchange with a (sane) liquidity-mining token model that puts users in control. Its native DerivaDEX token (DDX) allows users to participate in the exchange's governance and operations. DerivaDEX will be a next-generation exchange by leveraging trusted hardware and gaining decentralization on the base layer.
dYdX is the most powerful open trading platform for advanced crypto financial products, powered by the Ethereum blockchain. Trade perpetual contracts with low fees, deep liquidity, and up to 20x more buying power.