Celestia raises $55M!

Oct 2022

The Celestia Foundation has raised $55 million in support from rounds led by Bain Capital Crypto and Polychain Capital with participation from Placeholder, Galaxy, Delphi Digital, Blockchain Capital, NFX, Protocol Labs, Figment, Maven 11, Spartan Group, Jump Crypto, and select angels.

Valory: Enabling rich dApps through an open and permissionless agent protocol

Oct 2022

We are excited to back Valory in their mission to bring rich applications to web3 by building the open and autonomous service layer.

Frontdoor Labs Raises $1M Pre-Seed Round Led by Signature Ventures

Oct 2022

We are truly excited to lead Frontdoor Labs' $1 million seed round and back the team on its mission to build a global web3 talent network.

Valory Closes $4M Seed Round

Oct 2022

We are thrilled to back Valory on their mission to solve some of the greatest challenges in web3, as part of their $4M Seed round led by True Ventures.

Nevermined Closes €3M Seed Round

Jul 2022

We are thrilled to co-lead Nevermined's €3 million seed round together with our friends at Polymorphic Capital.

Molecule Raises $13M Seed!

Jun 2022

We are proud to have been there from the start and to be part of the amazing journey building the future of decentralized science.

Notabene Raises $10.2M Series A!

Nov 2021

We are proud to have been there from the start and are happy to continue backing their outstanding team through our follow-on investment in this Series A.

BTP: Simplifying the Deployment and Management of Enterprise Blockchain Infrastructure

Jul 2021

We are excited to back BTP’s enterprise blockchain experts on their mission to bring the benefits of distributed ledgers to businesses.

BTP Closes £2M Seed Round

Jul 2021

We are thrilled to be a major part of the £2M seed round of Blockchain Technology Partners led by Force Over Mass and us.

Unchained Raises $25M Series A

Jun 2021

Our portfolio company Unchained has closed a $25M Series A, bringing its company valuation to $125M.

Finoa Closes $22M Series A

Apr 2021

We are thrilled to announce that we continue to back our portfolio company Finoa as part of their Series A round led by Balderton Capital.

Celestia: The General-Purpose Data Availability Layer of the Decentralized Internet

Mar 2021

Read our Investment Thesis on why Celestia and its general-purpose data availability layer is a paradigm shift for scalable Blockchain architecture and a catalyst towards a decentralized Internet.

Celestia Closes $1.5M Seed Round

Mar 2021

We are thrilled to be a major part of the $1.5M seed round of Celestia alongside Binance Labs, Maven11 and KR1.

Unchained Raises $5.5M Seed Round

Mar 2021

Unchained raised a $5.5 million equity seed round led by institutional Bitcoin technology and financial services firm NYDIG.

Unchained: Unlocking the Potential of Bitcoin-Native Multisignature Capabilities

Dec 2020

Unchained provides financial services on top of its highly secure and innovative collaborative custody infrastructure tailored to the needs of long-term Bitcoin holders.

Notabene Raises Seed Round of $1.77M

Nov 2020

As Notabene's first institutional investor in their pre-Seed stage, we are happy to be accompanied by well-known names from the Blockchain and FinTech space: our network partners at Castle Island Ventures led the Seed round, joined by Green Visor Capital, among others.

Notabene: Embracing Regulation within the Blockchain Space

Nov 2020

Notabene is building a Blockchain-focused compliance platform to provide crypto businesses with the tools to implement regulatory compliance in a simple way. Their diverse founder team follows a Blockchain-first approach combining decentralized-identity technology with the highest compliance standards.

Bitcoin Is Adopted by Corporate Treasuries

Oct 2020

Seemingly overnight, the cryptocurrency has become popular as a reserve asset among publicly-listed US companies. There are signs that this is only the beginning.

How blockchain and AI converge towards an internet of collective intelligence (german)

Sep 2020

Schönes neues World Wide Web

Bitcoin’s Next Bull Run?

Sep 2020

How do institutional investors prepare for a next Bitcoin bull market

Molecule: The Next Stage in the Evolution of Drug Development

Jul 2020

Molecule aims to disrupt the pharmaceutical drug discovery and development industry. Their outstanding team is building a trust-less open platform for the efficient management of pharmaceutical intellectual property (IP) between researchers and investors.

What Blockchain Founders Can Do in Times of COVID-19

Apr 2020

This article was originally written and published in collaboration with dGen for their two-part series, which surveyed some of the top blockchain investors in Europe.

Doing It for the Money

Mar 2020

The fight against the Coronavirus causes companies and scientists to collaborate closer, which accelerates the evolution towards open knowledge and data ecosystems and is bound to reshape the financial landscape

Early Blockchain Projects Are Starting to Scale

Feb 2020

Recent VC-driven financing rounds within the blockchain industry indicate that an increasing number of companies are reaching important milestones and that company growth is gaining momentum.

We Are Backing Finoa

Jan 2020

Happy to announce that Signature Ventures joined the seed round of Finoa GmbH. Looking forward to supporting Christopher May and Henrik Gebbing in building the leading custody solution for digital assets in Europe.

The Path to Blockchain Adoption Is Not Paved Yet

Nov 2019

Ideas of decentralization might be concrete for those who cope with them on a daily basis, but highly abstract for those who are still living in the mostly centralized reality.

The Promises and Perils of DeFi

Sep 2019

The advent of Ethereum along with its flexible smart-contract language that provides developers with a broad toolkit to build decentralized applications has led to a slew of ambitious projects ranging from decentralized exchanges to trading and insurance.

Banking the Un(der)banked: Opportunities and Limits of Blockchain Technology

Jul 2019

Recently, Facebook released their specification for the Libra project, a global currency to connect the world. In this piece we take a closer look at the unbanked and underbanked and the role Blockchain technology could play to accelerate progress towards resolution.

Decentralized Identity: The Dawn of the Self-Sovereign Individual

Jun 2019

In recent years, decentralized identity has regained attention due to numerous data breaches and the advent of blockchain technology. In this piece we take a look at the evolution of digital identity, Microsoft’s Identity Overlay Network (ION), and how decentralized identity could contribute to the digital transformation.

Global Blockchain VC Study

May 2019

In our Global Blockchain VC study, we analyzed the portfolios of 172 venture capital firms based in the US, Europe and Asia. By categorizing 881 portfolio companies according to clearly defined Blockchain sectors, we compiled a comprehensive overview of the Blockchain VC landscape.

Why Blockchain is a Game Changer

Apr 2019

Blockchain has the potential to redefine gaming in terms of ownership of digital assets, interoperability of games and governance. A number of gaming publishers have already been dipping their toes into blockchain games. But gamers should not hang their hopes up too high, at least in the short to medium term.

Enterprise Cryptocurrencies: A Corporate Attack on Crypto?

Mar 2019

Our team dug deeper into the news of a potential Facebook cryptocurrency and JP Morgan's JPM Coin. We explored what these coin projects could potentially look like and how they compare to traditional cryptocurrencies.