The Kraken Advantage
Kraken is the world's leading crypto platform and Kraken Ventures will serve as its independent strategic partner in supporting the ecosystem. Our unique position at the center of the Crypto and Fintech ecosystems gives us front-row seats to the emergence of new trends. Our experience building a truly global, scalable platform allows us to add value from inception through the growth lifecycle of our portfolio companies. Each member of the investment team has significant experience investing in and supporting early stage technology companies. We are here to partner with companies to make financial services more open, inclusive, and transparent.
Investment Focus
Stage
Focus on Seed and A rounds as entry points in equity and crypto tokens pre-launch, with follow-ons for outperforming companies in Series B onward
Location
U.S. (~50%) and internationally (~50%) – we are exploring opportunities in Canada, APAC, Europe, UK, Israel, and UAE
Verticals
B2B FinTech and B2C/B2B Crypto, specifically enterprise SaaS or FinTech companies that cater to businesses as well as business-to-consumer distribution (B2B2C) are expected be the primary focus
*RegTech, CyberSecurity,Analytics, Developer Tools
Vertical Priorities
FIN-TECH
Every company is becoming a Fintech company and we will invest in the B2B focused companies enabling this shift. Blockchain and crypto are drastically improving traditional financial services products by making processes faster, cheaper, and fairer.
WEB3 / DEFI
As the movement of value over protocol grows, projects are looking to empower users to have access to the same products reserved for banks and UHNW individuals. Insurance, derivatives, DEX execution routers, and novel scalability solutions fall in this category.
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DIGITAL ECONOMIES
Companies promoting digital economies continue to grow by eliminating the need for complex bank relationships and forming direct on-platform interlinks. This trend exists across VR, e-sports and gaming, and other self-contained ecosystems.
ENABLING TECH (Fintech Infrastructure*/AI / ML / Deep Learning)
Infrastructure supporting the development of new financial ecosystems. From open banking infrastructure to trade surveillance, these companies will become the backbone of the future of economies. These technologies will drastically change financial services tech stacks and will scale across multiple sectors of the economy
*RegTech, CyberSecurity, Analytics, Developer Tools
Our Portfolio
Decentralized settlement layer that enables direct trade execution against traditional liquidity pools and market makers. Creates cost-efficiency with a non-custodial OTC experience.
A Cryptocurrency analytics company that provides market intelligence for the crypto industry.
Provides an SDK allowing app users to opt in to pay for premium features with their idle computing resources.
Leading global marketplace to convert airtime into digital money.
Business banking for Web3 companies
LimeWire is a digital collectibles marketplace for music and the broader art and entertainment space. The company will open the collectibles market to the mainstream while also leveraging all the benefits of Web3.
An enterprise NFT based data layer platform.
Institutional-only lending and borrowing venue for stablecoins and crypto assets.
All-in-one checkout platform for B2B merchants and marketplaces.
Check payment software combining headless commerce with a Web3 token approach.
A foundational and modular protocol for value exchange between fungible tokens.
A Polkadot/Substrate based chain using a codebase that is nearly identical to Diem’s. Permissionless version (the “Kusama”) of Facebook’s Diem.
Self-directed IRA and 401K platform that unlocks alternative assets in tax deferred retirement accounts.
The DeFi hub for Polkadot, enabling trustless exchange, stablecoin mining, and liquidity staking.
World’s first international stablecoin settlement network.
Taki is a token-powered social network where you can earn a daily income by simply posting content and chatting with others.
Immortal Game is a play and earn Chess game where the classic rules of Chess are complemented with optional NFT-enabled challenges.
A decentralized insurance platform built on the Algorand blockchain.
A blockchain protocol provides an on-chain API for sending information between blockchains.
Enterprise-grade staking solution.
Crypto infrastructure for MEV protection.
Next-gen Web3 payment full stack for stablecoins.
Blaze is a community CRM and analytics tool that helps Web3 startups onboard, activate and engage your users.
Blockchain analytics provider. Platform that takes a behavior-based approach to transaction risk management.
Wraps native tokens into 1:1 pegged ERC-20 pTOKENs allowing use of PoS assets in the Ethereum ecosystem.
Leading cryptocurrency portfolio tax provider.
Presail is a token fundraising and management tool for investment communities, VCs, projects and launchpads.
A digital asset management platform.
A single API and dashboard to manage KYC, AML and fraud.
A debt payment infrastructure.
Composable and decentralized social graph for Web3 native social media.
Developer of security platform intended to protect users from malicious actors and protocols interfacing.
Leading independent staking infrastructure provider with institutional-grade security and monitoring.
India-based short-form video sharing platform.
Premier digital asset platform for institutions providing secure crypto custody, trading, staking, governance, and more.
Leading payroll connectivity API company to securely update direct deposits and access income and employment data.
Conductive is building a front-end toolset for Web 3.0 to support project gamification and analytics tracking.
A credit Saas platform designed to digitize mortgage processes for lenders.
A permissionless, GitHub-integrated, on-chain work platform tailored for software development feature bounties.
All-in-one solution that revolutionises financial wellbeing.
Marketplace for on-chain carbon credits.
A modular risk and collateral management protocol.