Digest of the Veck

Hey everyone! Here is a short recap of some Web3 deals from last week using Veck.

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Some of the trending projects

Azura → DeFi company still in Stealth. Seed Club, Initialized, Cyber Fund, Sneaky Ventures, IOSG and others.

Tribe → Crypto social on Solana, recent interactions with Robot Ventures, Messari, Nascent, RockawayX, Sfermion, Paradigm and others.

Anera Labs → Anera is building the first decentralized market for shared liquidity. We first saw them in may 2024, now we see active interactions with a16z, Standard Crypto, SevenX, Folius, North Island, Paradigm and others.

Some of the projects raising now

Dora → Cross-chain discovery engines, recent interactions with Anagram, Pear VC, Compound.

Nodekit → building the first Superbuilder that enables composability between chains. Recent interest from Placeholder, Symbolic Capital, Social Graph and Sreeram Kannan.

Zap Labs → building a decentralized and permissionless infrastructure for a new data-as-an-asset economy, leveraging zkTLS. Recent interactions with Binance Labs, Modular Capital, Robot Ventures, Vaneck and others.

Camp Network → a social data layer2 protocol. Recent interactions with USV, Read Beard Ventures, Eden Block, Paper Ventures, Portal and others.

Some of the very early projects

The Sink → The Sink is the first L2 built on a 'real yield' flywheel that creates positive sum outcomes for users, builders, and capital allocators. Recent interest from Pragma Ventures, CMT Digital and Zee Prime

Pump Party → yet another memecoin launchpad with interest from dao5, Hypersphere and Robot Ventures.

zkSpin → High-performance Decentralized Computing Infrastructure. a16z CSX 2024 NYC Cohort. Recent interest from Race Capital, Folius Ventures and a16z crypto

Some of the founders in Stealth

Pankaj Gupta → prev. VP at Coinbase. Now building in Stealth. Interest from a16z crypto, Index Ventures, Maveron.

Matteo Leibowitz → possibly building in Stealth, prev. head of ventures at Uniswap. Pace Capital, a16z crypto, Sigil Fund.

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Have a great week!