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Early-stage venture capital and resources for founders exploring new frontiers in web3, decentralization, and blockchain technology.

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dlab provides venture capital and resources to web3 and crypto projects creating more open, transparent, and participatory systems using blockchains and other decentralization technologies. We provide up to $250k in venture funding to pre-seed and seed-stage startups across the globe through our fully-remote program.


In addition to capital, our team supports startups through a proven recipe of scheduled review and feedback sessions, mentor network interactions, and bespoke hands-on help in areas such as product architecture and design, UX, business development, and fundraising strategy. We have a dedicated community of mentors, founders, syndicate investors, and ecosystem partners excited to collaborate with early-stage founders.

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3-12
months residency
$250k
pre‑seed funding
$500k+
partner perks
70+
mentors

Portfolio

We're proud to support great companies who are building a more transparent, accessible, and decentralized world. Our investments are protocol agnostic and global in scope.

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API3

Connecting blockchain-based smart contracts to real-world data

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Catallact

Catallact is a provider of on-chain data and analytics to the finance industry

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Composable Finance

Hyper liquidity infrastructure layer for DeFi assets

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Contango

Bringing expirables to DeFi

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Crayonic

Bank grade password-less security for authentication, digital assets and eSignatures

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Credmark

High-integrity DeFi data and risk modeling

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dcSpark

Crypto ecosystem builders

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Diwala

Digital solution to issue and verify credentials of a person or business

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Etherscore

A decentralized reputation system

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Fig Finance

Decentralized Structured Product & Clearing Protocol

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FleetOperate

On-demand Driver-as-a-Service platform for the Trucking Industry

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Goblin

Get paid for your content with your readers' compute power

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Helixworks

DNA-based data storage technologies for linking physical assets to digital ledgers

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Ithil

A generalised leveraged investment strategies protocol

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Kotal

Blockchain Infrastructure Done Righte

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Light Protocol

Private transactions for Solana

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Meshlink

Web3 analytics to track on-chain user engagement, retention and attribution

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Milkomeda

Layer 2 protocol (rollups) delivering EVM capabilities to non-EVM blockchains

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Pr3sence

Web3 ad server for cookie-free and privacy-centric advertisement on the blockchain

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Quidli

Offer crypto as perks to your employees, team members & contributors

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Sempo

Inclusive financial infrastructure for emerging markets

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Tesseract

Platform to build decentralized applications without adoption barriers

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Verifoxx

Identity verification that puts privacy first

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WeatherXM

Community-powered web3 weather network

The Team

Our team includes seasoned investors, engineers, crypto industry analysts, startup founders, product experts, and operators. We take active roles in the development of our portfolio companies.

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Shawn Broderick

General Partner

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Nick Plante (nap)

General Partner

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Paul Saint-Donat

Partner

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Donnacha Murphy

Analyst

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Aleksa Belic

Venture Fellow

News

Recent headlines, product launches, funding announcements, and more. For additional news and press, visit our media archive.

AccuWeather Launches First-Party Airnode using API3's Airnode Technology
AccuWeather Launches First-Party Airnode using API3's Airnode Technology

AccuWeather has launched its AccuWeather API on Web3 using API3's Airnode to deliver weather data to decentralized applications. Airnode is a serverless utility that allows API providers to seamlessly create first-party oracles that bring Web2 APIs onto the blockchain without relying on middlemen.
#api3 #oracles #accuweather

Web3 network WeatherXM raises $5 million in seed funding
Web3 network WeatherXM raises $5 million in seed funding

Weather XM, a weather network that utilizes crypto incentives to improve the accuracy of forecasts, has raised a $5 million seed round led by Placeholder VC.
#weatherXM #fundraise #iot

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