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FEATURED PORTFOLIO

API3

Building the web3 API economy with first-party data oracles

Contango

Perps built through looping, the native way of trading on-chain

Light Protocol

Solana ZK Compression for securely scaling on-chain state

WeatherXM

Community-powered DePIN weather network

RECENT ARTICLES

• 2025-01-28

  Our Investment in Based

  Based is building the world’s first Opinion Market, a new primitive for surfacing information from noise through an engaging social finance platform.

• 2024-05-22

  WeatherXM raises $7.7M to become the largest weather network in the world

  The fundraising round was led by Lightspeed Faction and will be used to advance the network and development of on-chain weather derivatives.

• 2023-01-10

  SOSV announces spinout of the dlab startup program as a standalone fund

  Starting in 2024, dlab will be operating as a newly independent fund with fresh capital and dedicated resources to fund the next generation of web3 and crypto startups.

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