Polychain Capital

Creator of Avalanche, a competitor to Ethereum, the most popular decentralized blockchain platform that applications can run on top of. Over the past year, more than 500 decentralized finance apps have been built on Avalanche, which can process 4,500 transactions per second, compared to just 14 per second for Ethereum.<p>Funding: $6 million from Andreessen Horowitz, Polychain, Initialized Capital and others. </p><p>Bona fides: Over 2.4 million users; Avalanche’s token AVAX has an $8.5 billion market capitalization.</p><p>Cofounders: CEO Emin Gün Sirer, 50, former Cornell University computer science professor known for his research on distributed systems; COO Kevin Sekniqi, 28; chief protocol architect Ted Yin, 27.</p>

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<p>Aims to help decentralized finance platforms (such as Uniswap and Arbitrum) to manage risk, while optimizing profitability. The firm’s premier service, Gauntlet Risk for Defi Protocols, has tools for real-time transaction risk monitoring at decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs). Even during the “crypto winter” of 2023, Gauntlet was able to grow its customer base to 36 crypto platforms, up from 29 in 2022. Of 14 mid-sized and large protocols, nine are clients.</p> <p>Funding: $45 million from Ribbit, Paradigm, and First Round.</p> <p>Latest valuation: $1 billion.</p> <p>Date of last valuation: March 2022.</p> <p>Bona fides: Helps protect a total of more than $9 billion in clients’ protocol assets.</p> <p>Cofounders: CEO Tarun Chitra, 35, Chief Technology Officer Rei Chiang, 37, and Chief Operating Officer John Morrow, 36.</p> <p>Headquarters: New York, New York.</p>

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