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Enjinstarter
Enjinstarter is a Singapore-based Web3 launchpad, incubator and advisory firm that helps blockchain gaming, metaverse, AI and entertainment projects raise capital and build communities through Initial DEX Offerings (IDOs). Founded in 2021, it operates a multi-chain launchpad governed by its EJS token and has expanded into climate-focused finance through AYA, a sustainability launchpad based in Dubai. The company has run 80+ token sales, raised over US$10M for projects, and positions itself as an end-to-end partner for teams moving from Web2 to Web3.
Mighty Jaxx
Mighty Jaxx is a Singapore-based, technology-driven brand platform that designs, manufactures and distributes limited-edition art toys and 'phygital' collectibles. Founded by Jackson Aw in 2012, it pairs licensed pop-culture partnerships (Netflix, Disney, Hasbro, DC Comics, Formula 1, Toei Animation) with more than 120 artists, and embeds NFC chips into products to enable blockchain-based authentication and a digital fan journey. The company ships to collectors in 90+ countries and operates a family of brands spanning collectibles, retail (PLAYe), experiences and Web3.
SettleMint
SettleMint is a Belgium-founded blockchain-platform-as-a-service company that helps banks, governments and large enterprises build, deploy and operate blockchain and tokenization applications without assembling infrastructure from scratch. Its Digital Asset Lifecycle Platform combines multi-chain infrastructure, smart-contract tooling, middleware and low-code application kits so teams can move from pilot to production across issuance, compliance, custody, settlement and servicing. Founded in 2016 by Matthew Van Niekerk and Roderik van der Veer, the company serves over 80 customers worldwide and powers national-scale deployments including Saudi Arabia's real-estate registration blockchain.
Metaversal
Metaversal is a Miami-based Web3-native merchant bank for the digital culture economy. Founded in 2021 by Yossi Hasson and Daniel Schmerin, it acquires and builds around blue-chip NFT intellectual property and now originates NFT-backed art loans and on-chain GPU financing tied to the AI compute buildout. Backed by a $50M Series A led by CoinFund and Foxhaven, the firm sits at the intersection of NFTs, lending, and AI infrastructure.
Concept Labs
Concept Labs (formerly Concept Art House) is a San Francisco-based creative and Web3 studio that builds NFTs, digital collectibles, and games for the world's biggest brands and IP. Founded in 2007 by James Zhang, the company spent over a decade producing art for AAA game franchises before pivoting to Web3, and has shipped more than 1,000 games and collectibles for partners including UFC, the NFL, the International Olympic Committee, Gucci, and Frank Miller's Sin City. It raised a $25M Series A in 2021 led by Dapper Labs.
BAXUS
BAXUS is a New York-based peer-to-peer marketplace for fine and rare wines and spirits, built on the Solana blockchain. It authenticates physical bottles, stores them in climate-controlled vaults, and issues digital tokens representing direct ownership - giving collectors and institutions real-time pricing, instant trade settlement, and the ability to use bottles as loan collateral. The platform has facilitated over $20 million in whiskey trades and raised a $5M seed round led by Multicoin Capital in 2024.
Ola Guild Games
Ola Guild Games (OLA GG) is the largest Web3 gaming community in the Spanish-speaking world, operating as a regional subDAO of Yield Guild Games. Founded by lifelong Hispanic gamers, it onboards players across Latin America and Spain into blockchain games through NFT scholarships, Web3 education, and a shared-rewards model that lets people play and earn without upfront cost. In 2022 it raised $8 million in seed funding from investors including Galaxy Interactive, BITKRAFT, and Arca.
P00LS
P00LS is a community-first Web3 protocol that lets creators and brands launch their own cryptocurrency token, distribute it to fans, and reward on-chain engagement across platforms. Founded in 2021 by Hugo Renaudin, the company turns audiences into token-holding communities, giving creators data and tools to map, reward, and grow their most active supporters. Backers include Acrew Capital, Maveron, and Kima Ventures, and early adopters range from footballer Ronaldinho to TIME and Ed Banger Records.
The ARIA Network
The ARIA Network is a media-and-technology company turning ordinary objects, faces, and places into augmented-reality gateways and original "living" NFTs. Through its ARIA Recognition platform, 360-degree AR campaigns, and the Hedera-powered ARIA Exchange, it pairs brands and sports legends with consumers using shoppable, immersive content - already activated in 100+ Brookfield malls and with nearly 1,500 NBA, WNBA and Harlem Globetrotters legends.
Audius
Audius is a decentralized music streaming and discovery platform that lets artists upload, share, and monetize tracks directly to fans without traditional gatekeepers. Built on Solana and Ethereum and powered by the AUDIO token, the platform runs on a network of community-operated content and discovery nodes - giving creators ownership of their catalogs and a direct line to listeners.
Hugo Renaudin
Hugo Renaudin is the co-founder and CEO of P00LS, a Web3 platform building social and community tokens for creators and brands. A French-born, math-trained entrepreneur, he ran the largest ICO in France (raising roughly $20-30M in under 10 hours for LGO, a crypto exchange he sold to Voyager Digital), then co-founded the DeFi venture Bender Labs before launching P00LS in 2021. P00LS has raised around $18M to turn fandom into ownership: creators mint non-speculative tokens that reward and identify their most loyal supporters across chains.
Nico del Pino
Nico del Pino is the co-founder and CEO of Ola Guild Games (OLA GG), the largest web3 gaming community in the Hispanic world. A subDAO of Yield Guild Games, OLA GG sets out to turn play into financial inclusion for the 500-million-plus Spanish-speaking market across Latin America and beyond. A crypto and fintech operator for more than a decade, del Pino co-founded Liquid Meta (the first publicly traded liquidity-mining company), ran fintech at Endeavor, and led sales at NASDAQ-listed dLocal before betting his career on the idea that owning your in-game economy could change a household's bottom line.
Bankole Omodunbi
Bankole Omodunbi is the co-founder, CEO and CTO of Verbwire, a Web3 infrastructure startup that turns weeks of Solidity, Hardhat and wallet configuration into a single REST API call. A former Managing Director in equities quant trading at Credit Suisse with 16+ years on Wall Street, he left banking in 2021 to build developer tooling that lets engineers deploy smart contracts, mint NFTs, move assets cross-chain and spin up wallets using familiar languages like Python and Java. Verbwire raised a $12.3M Series A and is based in the New York area.
David Mandel
David Mandel is a Los Angeles entrepreneur and tech investor who co-founded and chairs YEBO, a no-code platform that helps brands build and manage Web3 digital assets, NFTs and blockchain loyalty programs. He is also co-founder and chairman of Bitvore, an AI and machine-learning company whose risk and business-signal data has been used across Wall Street by firms including S&P, Moody's, Fidelity, Wells Fargo, UBS and AIG. A math graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, he holds patents in data visualization and was an early seed investor in companies such as Broadcom, Access360 (acquired by IBM) and Fulcrum Microsystems (acquired by Intel).
YEBO
YEBO is a Los Angeles Web3 company building no-code tools that let brands and creators design 3D virtual stores and launch interoperable NFT rewards and loyalty programs. Its stated mission is to bring people into Web3 by letting them create their own digital assets - buildings, stores, products - that can move freely from one Web3 environment to another. Founded in 2013 and later repositioned around blockchain rewards, YEBO is led by serial entrepreneur and Bitvore co-founder David Mandel.
Will O'Brien
Will O'Brien is a serial entrepreneur, angel investor, and the CEO and co-founder of NFT Oasis, the metaverse platform owned and operated by Provenonce, Inc. A blockchain and gaming veteran, he co-founded and led Bitcoin security pioneer BitGo (later acquired by Galaxy Digital for $1.2B) and was named Bitcoin industry 'CEO of the Year' in 2014. Before that he ran corporate development at Big Fish Games and held operating roles at Keen IO and TrialPay. He has backed 70-plus early-stage startups, holds a Harvard computer science degree and an MIT Sloan MBA, and moonlights as an improvisational pianist.
Alex Atallah
Alex Atallah is the CEO and co-founder of OpenRouter, the unified API and marketplace that routes developer requests across hundreds of large language models. He previously co-founded OpenSea, the NFT marketplace, where he was CTO before leaving in 2022 to build from zero to one again. A Stanford computer scientist and Palantir alum, he turned a side project that connected browsers to AI models into infrastructure now routing roughly 25 trillion tokens a week, and raised a $113M Series B in 2026.
Will Warren
Will Warren co-founded 0x in October 2016 alongside Amir Bandeali, building the open protocol that became foundational DeFi infrastructure for peer-to-peer trading of Ethereum-based digital assets. A former applied physics researcher at Los Alamos National Laboratory who left a PhD program in structural engineering to bet everything on Ethereum, Warren grew 0x from a whitepaper into a protocol powering billions in DEX volume and a developer platform serving the broadest ecosystem of DeFi apps, wallets, and market makers. In May 2026 he stepped down as Co-CEO while remaining a major shareholder and board member.
Gagan Palrecha
Gagan Palrecha is a seasoned technology entrepreneur, executive, and investor with over two decades of experience spanning early internet infrastructure, consumer tech, blockchain, and fiber optic networking. Currently CEO of Stealth, a Los Angeles-based fiber internet provider that has raised $22.8M in funding, Gagan has held senior roles at Dapper Labs (NBA Top Shot), Getaround, and NFTSTAR, while also serving as COO at RLY Network Association. A Y Combinator alumnus (2010) and General Partner at Palrecha Capital with 36+ portfolio companies, he brings an engineering foundation from Loudcloud - the legendary cloud infrastructure startup co-founded by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz - to every venture he touches.
Joe Ruiz
Joe Ruiz is the CEO and Founder of DPS (Digital Postal Service), an AI-driven blockchain-based communications company that has certified over 3 million documents across U.S. courts and pioneered the first blockchain-generated ePostage certified by USPS. A descendant of Declaration of Independence signer John Hart, Ruiz has spent a decade bridging traditional postal infrastructure with Web3 technology - building CaseMail, integrating NFT Digital Stamps into USPS Connect eCommerce, and expanding his certified AI email platform to Microsoft's Azure Marketplace.
Thanh Tran
Thanh Tran is Co-CEO of A5 Labs, a Foster City-based AI company building game integrity infrastructure for competitive online gaming. With a PhD in Computer Science from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and a background scaling Upwork's data science team through its IPO, he now leads a 180-person team applying deep reinforcement learning, blockchain reputation systems, and real-time behavioral analytics to eliminate bots, collusion, and cheating from online poker and beyond.
Shamal Ranasinghe
Shamal Ranasinghe is the Chief Business Officer at Audius, the decentralized blockchain-based music streaming platform. A 25-year music-tech veteran, he co-founded Topspin Media in 2007 - one of the first direct-to-fan platforms for musicians - before spending eight years as VP of Product at Pandora/SiriusXM building creator tools. At Audius, he leads major label and publishing deals, including a landmark global licensing agreement with Kobalt Music in 2024, while championing a world where artists own their music, keep 90% of revenue, and connect directly with fans without gatekeepers.
Carra Wu
Carra Wu is a Partner on the a16z crypto investment team, where she leads investments in gaming, media, consumer, and infrastructure. She became the youngest check signer in the firm's history at age 23, ascending from intern to deal partner in under a year - a trajectory that started with a six-sentence cold email to Arianna Simpson. A Harvard applied math dropout fluent in three languages, former HoloLens AR/VR engineer at Microsoft, and one-time ballet dancer, Wu brings a builder's instincts to some of crypto's biggest bets, including Axie Infinity, Friends With Benefits, Yield Guild Games, Story Protocol, and CCP Games.
Chris Lyons
Chris Lyons is a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), the legendary Silicon Valley venture capital firm, where he spent over a decade reshaping how culture and capital intersect. Starting as Chief of Staff to co-founder Ben Horowitz in 2013, he rose to General Partner by 2021 and founded the Cultural Leadership Fund (CLF) in 2018 - Silicon Valley's first VC fund composed entirely of Black Limited Partners, uniting athletes, musicians, and entertainers as investors in frontier technology. A former sound engineer trained under Grammy-winning producer Jermaine Dupri, Lyons brings a rare cross-industry fluency to tech investing, bridging entertainment, sports, Web3, and enterprise software. As of early 2026, he announced his departure from a16z to launch his own fund, citing the AI revolution as the defining moment to build independently.
Sungmo Park
Sungmo Park is Partner and Head of APAC Go-to-Market at a16z crypto, leading Andreessen Horowitz's first Asian office in Seoul. A quadrilingual strategist who speaks Korean, Japanese, Chinese, and English, Park bridges the gap between Silicon Valley capital and Asia's most dynamic crypto ecosystems. His career spans traditional finance at Nomura, product at NAVER, co-founding OnePlanet (a Polygon-based NFT marketplace backed by Hashed and Animoca Brands), leading APAC business development at Polygon Labs, and serving as APAC Lead at Monad Foundation before joining a16z to anchor its Korea, Singapore, and Japan expansion.
Rachel Soper Sanders
Rachel Soper Sanders is a Venture Partner at 2048 Ventures and the CEO and co-founder of Rootine, a precision nutrition company that personalizes cellular health through DNA analysis and biometric data. A Harvard Business School MBA and former healthcare investment banker at Raymond James who worked on $5B+ in M&A deals, she pivoted from Wall Street to wellness after personally battling burnout and fatigue. She co-founded Rootine in 2018 with Dr. Daniel Wallerstorfer, raised a $3M seed round and a $10M Series A, launched the Apex Optimizers NFT project bridging web3 and health optimization, and hosts the Smart Health with Rachel Sanders podcast. She brings over a decade of health-tech experience across investment banking, product strategy, and company building to her venture investing role.
Justin Kan
Justin Kan is a serial entrepreneur and investor best known as the co-founder of Twitch, the live streaming platform acquired by Amazon for $970 million in 2014. A Yale graduate who studied physics and philosophy, Kan pioneered lifecasting by wearing a camera 24/7 for Justin.tv in 2007, which evolved into Twitch and revolutionized gaming culture. He's launched multiple ventures including Socialcam (sold to Autodesk for $60M), served as a Y Combinator partner, and now invests through Goat Capital while building new companies in Web3, commerce, and music. Despite selling Twitch for nearly $1 billion, Kan has been candid about struggles with happiness, anxiety, and finding fulfillment beyond exits, making him a rare voice of authenticity in Silicon Valley's success-obsessed culture.
Yossi Hasson
Yossi Hasson is the Co-Founder and CEO of Metaversal, a Web3-native merchant bank specializing in NFT curation and digital IP, and a Venture Partner at 2048 Ventures. A serial entrepreneur who started his first company at 17, Yossi co-founded SYNAQ (acquired by Dimension Data), WeThinkCode_ (Africa's largest coding academy), and served as Managing Director of Techstars Africa. With 20+ years in tech, he's invested in over 60 startups and crypto protocols, acquired 2,000+ NFTs across 250+ projects, and raised $50M for Metaversal. A Stanford GSB graduate, he splits his time between New York and Miami, hosting podcasts and lecturing on entrepreneurship while building at the intersection of AI, Web3, and digital culture.
Trung Nguyen
Vietnamese developer and entrepreneur Trung Nguyen is the CEO and co-founder of Sky Mavis, the studio behind Axie Infinity, the blockchain game that turned NFT pets into a global play-to-earn phenomenon. He previously co-founded Lozi and worked at Anduin Transactions before betting on CryptoKitties-inspired game design in 2017.
Wylie Aronow
Wylie Aronow, better known online as Gordon Goner, is the co-founder of Yuga Labs and the creative force behind Bored Ape Yacht Club, the NFT collection that became a $4 billion cultural phenomenon. A former MFA dropout who spent most of his twenties bedridden with chronic colitis, he co-created BAYC in 2021 with three friends after asking 'What the fuck is an NFT?' - and within months built one of the most influential brands in crypto history. After stepping back from Yuga Labs in early 2023 following a congestive heart failure diagnosis, he remains a board member and strategic advisor while focusing on recovery.