Kintsu is at the forefront of DeFi innovation, offering next-generation liquid staking infra that provides enhanced liquidity and security through composable staking rewards. Built on the Monad network, Kintsu’s platform is designed to cater to the evolving needs of the digital asset ecosystem, ensuring a seamless and potentially rewarding staking experience for users.
Sector: Crypto
Paradigm
Paradigm is a unified, non-custodial liquidity network for crypto derivatives traders across CeFi and Defi. The free-to-use platform provides a single point of access to multi-asset, multi-leg, multi-protocol liquidity on-demand, without compromising on price, size, execution costs and immediacy.
The Giving Block
The Giving Block, a Shift4 company, is the platform helping nonprofits fundraise more effectively from modern philanthropists. Pioneers of the “Crypto Philanthropy” movement, The Giving Block developed the leading solutions for cryptocurrency donations, taking crypto and NFT donations mainstream in the nonprofit sector. The Giving Block’s team then developed a stock giving experience built to empower even more donors to give non-cash assets. When combined, The Giving Block’s product suite empowers more donors than ever to give assets to their favorite causes. Today, thousands of nonprofits are using The Giving Block to fundraise from modern philanthropists.
Path
Path provides retail investors the ability to invest in broad based baskets of crypto assets, access to trading bots, and automated portfolio management tools. The company offers direct access to curated, pre-built portfolios that are easily integrated to a customer’s exchange account with automatic purchasing and rebalancing.
Napster
In 1999, Napster changed the music industry forever when it launched the world’s first peer-to-peer music sharing service. Peaking at 85M users, for many, Napster was not only their first experience of digital music but also their first real social media experience. Napster is now once again gearing to revolutionize the music industry, evolving music streaming from being an access-based monthly subscription model to a social music platform and marketplace that connects artists and fans, unlocking unprecedented new creative and commercial opportunities.
Grove
Grove provides node infrastructure services for applications, enterprises, and users to interact with blockchains. At its core, Grove is a RPC (Remote Procedure Call) service that enables users to read and write data to over 40 blockchains. Grove is built on top of the Pocket Network, a global, decentralized network of nodes. Through their portal, Grove provides a performance layer that enhances the reliability and scalability of Pocket while also ensuring the high-quality service users demand.
Digital Assets Data
Digital Assets Data is a financial technology and data company building enterprise-grade software and data feeds for crypto hedge funds, family offices, research firms, global consulting firms, banks, sovereigns, and other market participants. Digital Assets Data was acquired by NYDIG, a leading provider of investment and technology solutions for Bitcoin, in January 2021.
Bison Trails
Bison Trails is a blockchain infrastructure platform that was acquired by Coinbase in January 2021. The platform provides a suite of services, including: “Query & Transact”, enabling developers to more easily retrieve and analyze data generated from blockchain networks for trading, research or development purposes, and “Participate,” enabling companies to participate in a blockchains proof of stake (PoS) consensus mechanism and earn newly issued cryptocurrency rewards. These services are integrated into Coinbase Developer Platform and are offered through the Coinbase website.
Jack Neureuter
Jack Neureuter is an Associate at F-Prime focused on early-stage crypto investments. Prior to joining F-Prime, Jack was an investor at Avon Ventures and a research analyst for Fidelity Digital Assets. Jack’s time as a crypto-focused research analyst has served as a foundation to better understanding the evolving digital asset landscape.
Jack holds a degree in Finance from UMass Amherst. His interest in the crypto space was sparked in 2017 with his initial encounter with Bitcoin.
Bala Varadhan
Bala Varadhan is a Principal at F-Prime focused on early-stage crypto, blockchain, and Web3 investments. Before joining F-Prime, Bala was with Avon Ventures and previously honed his expertise at the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), where he specialized in private equity due diligence and growth strategy. Bala’s career also includes roles in private equity and law, which have equipped him with a strong foundation in investment and transactional analysis.
Bala holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management, a JD from the Pritzker School of Law, and dual B.A.s in Economics and Liberal Arts from The University of Texas at Austin. His interest in the crypto space began in 2013 with his initial exposure to Bitcoin.