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Vitalik Buterin
Total Investments8
L23
Zero Knowledge Industry1
Infrastructure1
Banking1
EVM1
DeFi1
| Name | Round | Category | Description | Lead Investor | Chains | Other Investors | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Etherealize | Sep 3, 2025 | $40m | Banking | Etherealize is a New York-based fintech startup serving as an institutional marketing, product, and business development arm to integrate traditional financial institutions with the Ethereum blockchain ecosystem | Electric Capital, Paradigm | Vitalik Buterin, Ethereum Foundation | |||
| Rarimo | Nov 27, 2024 | $2.5m | Vision Round | Zero Knowledge Industry | Rarimo is a multi-chain protocol addressing liquidity, access, and interoperability for fungible and non-fungible assets | Vitalik Buterin, Keone Hon, Nick White, Daniel Lubarov, Zac Williamson, Stefan George, Brian Retford, Alex Pruden, Arnaud Shenk, Ariel Gabizon, Liam Eagan, Pavel Kravchenko | |||
| RISE Chain | Sep 16, 2024 | $3.2m | Seed | L2 | The Gigagas Layer 2 - Ethereum’s Broadband Moment | Finality Capital Partners | Orange DAO, Digital Asset Capital Management, Ether.fi, P2 Ventures, MH Ventures, Public Works, Vitalik Buterin, Stani Kulechov, Sassal.eth, Sandeep Nailwal, Scott Moore, DCF God, Sam Kazemian, Alex Svanevik | ||
| MegaETH | Jun 27, 2024 | $20m | Seed | L2 | real-time Ethereum, streaming transactions | Dragonfly Capital | $100m | Figment Capital, Folius Ventures, Robot Ventures, Tangent, Big Brain Holdings, Credibly Neutral, Vitalik Buterin, Joseph Lubin, Sreeram Kannan, Santiago Roel Santos, Cobie, Hasu, Mert Mumtaz, Karthik Talwar | |
| Polymarket | May 14, 2024 | $45m | Series B | DeFi | Polymarket is a platform for speculators to wager on the world's most hotly contested topics. | Founders Fund | 1Confirmation, ParaFi Capital, Vitalik Buterin, Dragonfly Capital | ||
| Nocturne | Oct 25, 2023 | $6m | Seed | Infrastructure | Usable on-chain privacy for Ethereum | Bain Capital, Polychain Capital | Vitalik Buterin, Bankless Ventures, Hack VC | ||
| Kakarot | Jun 2, 2023 | Pre-Seed | EVM | type 2.5 zkEVM written in Cairo | Vitalik Buterin, StarkWare, LambdaClass, Nicolas Bacca, Rand Hindi, Sami Ben, Gregoireljda.eth, Etienne Royole, Ramzi Laieb, Benjamin Flores, Gabin Marignier, Rudy Kadoch, Pol Maire, FuzzingLabs, HerodotusDev, Edi Sinovcic, Nathan VDH, Greg Gambatto, Abdouuu_la, Jason Delabays | ||||
| StarkWare | Jan 31, 2018 | $6m | Seed | L2 | STARK-Based Scaling Solutions | Pantera Capital, Naval Ravikant, MetaStable, Floodgate, Polychain Capital, Vitalik Buterin, Zcash Co., Arthur Breitman, Da Hongfei, Bitmain, Elad Gil, Fred Ehrsam, Linda Xie |