FUNDING

Backing the builders of the new open internet

NEW OPEN INTERNET

NEW OPEN INTERNET

The future of the internet is being shaped BY THE EXTRAORDINARY

by the extraordinary

by the extraordinary

UNPACK INVESTMENT STRATEGY

PORTFOLIO

Active
Active
Biconomy
Data Infrastructure
Gateway
Customisable transaction journey through meta transactions in your blockchain enabled app within a couple lines of code. Reduces the friction between your application and your users.
VISIT SITE
Active
Active
Catapult
Data Infrastructure
Digital Community
Answering decentralised collaboration. Unlocking the potential in Web3 communities through effortless onboarding, rich Web3 profiles, and powerful tools to explore and connect.
VISIT SITE
Active
Active
Chainflip
New Market Disruptor
Decentralized Finance
A decentralised, trustless protocol that enables cross chain swaps between different blockchains to create a seamless universe.
VISIT SITE
Active
Active
Coordinape
New Market Disruptor
Digital Community
An armoury for scaling DAOs.
VISIT SITE
Active
Active
Fair.xyz
Data Infrastructure
Gateway
Engineers from Instagram, Facebook, and Goldman Sachs built a platform for creators to launch collections without code, gas, or complications.
VISIT SITE
Active
Active
Gensyn
Data Infrastructure
Gateway
Hyperscale, cost-efficient, compute protocol for the world's frontiers of deep learning models.
VISIT SITE
Active
Active
Grainchain
Low-end Market Disruptor
Decentralized Finance
An end-to-end supply chain and transactional platform for bulk dry agricultural commodities such as corn, sorghum, wheat and soybeans
VISIT SITE
Active
Active
Nym
New Market Disruptor
Data Infrastructure
Building an incentivized network for privacy-preserving decentralized mixnets
VISIT SITE
Active
Active
Omni
Decentralized Finance
Gateway
Multi-chain wallet that makes staking your crypto as easy as possible. Earn interest on coins in seconds.
VISIT SITE
Active
Active
Pocket Network
Low-end Market Disruptor
Data Infrastructure
Building a two sided marketplace that links application developers with infrastructure providers
VISIT SITE
Active
Active
Tenderize
Gateway
Decentralized Finance
Connecting Web3 with DeFi through liquid staking and yield aggregation protocol.
VISIT SITE
Active
Active
Vega Protocol
New Market Disruptor
Decentralized Finance
Trustless protocol for non-custodial derivatives trading, margining and settling
VISIT SITE
Acquired
Acquired
HAL.xyz
Data Infrastructure
Gateway
The bridge between smart contracts and centralized apps. Connect your wallets, tokens and dApps in new ways with powerful automations. Acquired by Consensys
VISIT SITE
Acquired
Acquired
Chainspace
New Market Disruptor
Data Infrastructure
A sharded smart contract platform allowing truly scalable blockchain applications. Acquired by Facebook as a key part of their blockchain strategy
VISIT SITE
Acquired
Acquired
GK8
Gateway
Decentralized Finance
An institutional-grade custody platform used as the custody partner of choice by consumer trading and investment platform, eToro
VISIT SITE
FUNDING

Redifining our models of finance, governance, and business.

FULL MANIFESTO

The world's defining minds dedicated to growth

As technologists, entrepreneurs, investors, academics, and lawyers. Proven individuals with elite specialisms in blockchain, finance, theory, and enterprise software providing the widest collective advantage. We’re more than capital. We’re builders and a close partner to teams at every stage from startup to prosperous launch.
Lior Messika
Founder, Managing Partner
Lior Messika
Founder, Managing Partner

Lior spent his entire career at the intersection of investments, entrepreneurship, and frontier technologies. Before Eden Block, Lior scaled companies and led investments at Messika Holdings, as CEO of the group. At Eden Block, Lior works with the investment team & portfolio founders to solve problems, and refine the firm's investment theses. In his work, Lior is passionate about web3 infrastructure and decentralized value systems. Lior is an active contributor to a number of decentralized organizations, and is the Founder of the Mutant Cartel, one of the fastest-growing communities in the BAYC universe. Outside of Eden Block, Lior is an active philanthropist and co-founder of the Seadragon Foundation, a social enterprise dedicated to environmental conservation and social impact. Lior has been recognized by Forbes Europe's 30 under 30 list of 2021 for his work as an investor and entrepreneur.

Yoann Douieb
Co-founding Partner & COO
Yoann Douieb
Co-founding Partner & COO

For 20 years, Yoann has been managing various multi-assets investment vehicles, including at hedge fund EnTrustPermal, investment bank Natixis’s trading unit and holding company Temple Stone. He has also contributed to the UN’s international trade missions through business and financial consulting roles. At Eden Block, Yoann is responsible for all cross-functional aspects of the company’s operations, finances, legal and portfolio management. Yoann has also been an angel investor with a core focus in impact, most specifically sustainable urban development, waste management and health.

Rami Beracha
General Partner
Rami Beracha
General Partner

Rami served as Managing Partner at Pitango Venture Capital the largest venture capital fund in Israel (1996-2018) with $2.4B AUM 57M&As and 25 IPOs. In Pitango Rami was focused on early stage deep tech Web 2 investments, is personally signed on 15 exits and set on the board of numerous startups including Anobit (acquired by Apple), Leaba (acquired by Cisco), Dune (acquired by Marvel), Gteko (acquired by Microsoft), Convergin (acquired by oracle), dbMotion (acquired by Allscript) and Neebula (acquired by Service Now) among others.

Rami brings his deep experience and knowledge in building a startup roadmap from 1st money in all the way to an exit in the Web 2 infrastructure play, from vision, product and team building, through go-to-market and business model strategies, all the way to exit and M&A negotiations.

Rami was also the founder and chairman of Sosa TLV, which creates links between cities and global players, and Israeli start-ups.

Before joining Pitango, Rami was an Attorney at Fried, Frank, Harris and Jacobson (NY), 1992 - 1995 - a leading Wall Street law firm where focused on restructuring and securities/Rami holds three degrees: LLB, Tel Aviv university; LLM - Fordham University, NY; MBA - INSEAD University, France

Orit Freedman Weissman
General Partner
Orit Freedman Weissman
General Partner

Orit Freedman Weissman is a global investment banker and investor. She was a partner at Goldman Sachs where she served for over 20 years in Investment Banking in New York. She specialized in M&A transactions, financings and investments in private companies. She was founder and regional CEO for Goldman Sachs Israel and also served on the firm’s International Board of Advisors. Orit is a co-founder of the Mandarin Oriental Hotel and Residences in Tel Aviv. In recent years, she has been an investor in web3 through funds and direct investments. Orit is a graduate of Tel Aviv University Law School and earned an MBA at New York University's Stern School of Business.

Nelson Ryan
Investment Partner
Nelson Ryan
Investment Partner

Having spent his career focused on investment research, for the past five years Nelson has focused exclusively on the crypto markets. At The Reserve Ventures he worked closely with crypto founders and at Livepeer Grants lead public goods funding for the Livepeer Network. Nelson leads Eden's investment team on deal flow, due diligence, and market research to shape the firms investment theses and drive investment decisions. Outside of Eden Block, Nelson is a director at the Pocket Network Foundation, focusing on core protocol funding, while ensuring the Pocket Network remains an open credibly neutral platform for developers.

Daniel Luca
Tech Lead
Daniel Luca
Tech Lead

Writing his first program at five years old, he's never ceased to nurture his passion and love for tech and programming. Starting as a software developer, his entrepreneurial nature led him to co-found several startups, building a large part of the product whilst leading teams. His journey with blockchain started in 2017 by building an Ethereum analytics platform which fed an appetite for infosec that he'd held from a young age. His hacker mindset benefited the new career turn of conducting security audits with ConsenSys Diligence. Allowing him to do research in the security space and present findings at conferences around the world. At Eden Block, he is responsible for understanding the business's technical parts and providing support to the portfolio. He still loves to code and often contributes to open-source projects, advises companies, analyses exploits and vulnerabilities, and writes about all of this on Twitter.

Sergey Vartanov Khachaturyan
Operations & Research
Sergey Vartanov Khachaturyan
Operations & Research

A background in traditional Venture Capital and investment side of his family’s single family office with focus on research, operations, dealflow and fundraising at Eden Block. Outside of Eden Block he is an active contributor within the Apecoin ecosystem, hosting Eden Block twitter spaces and a daily show on NFTs. Sergey earned a BSc at University College London and an MSc at London Business School.

Ian Plunkett
Venture Partner
Ian Plunkett
Venture Partner

Ian Plunkett is a Venture Partner at Eden Block, advising portfolio companies and the fund on communications, brand strategy, culture, and values. He is also Chief Marketing & Communications Officer at Alder, where he leads communications, brand strategy, and marketing operations.

Ian built and scaled Twitter’s Policy Communications team around the world from 2015-2021, overseeing engagement with the company’s leadership team and CEO on issues such as ESG, data protection and privacy, countering violent extremism, content moderation, and election interference. His writing has been featured in the New York Times, Financial Times, Bloomberg, Washington Post, Times of India, Sunday Times, and more.

After his tenure at Twitter, Ian joined Coinbase as the first Director of Global Policy Communications where he advised the company’s CEO and C-suite team on policy and communications issues, including the first regulatory position paper published by the firm.

He is also a former UNAOC Fellow, UK Young Leaders Fellow, and a recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship.

He holds a B.A. in International Relations from Dublin City University and an M.Sc. in Political Science & Communications from the London School of Economics.

Yoel Cheshin
Venture Partner
Yoel Cheshin
Venture Partner

Founder and Chairman of 2B-Group, a private family office investment fund with over $60M under management. Founded in 2009, 2B-Angels is a seed-stage technology venture fund with over 40 companies in its portfolio. Yoel works with Eden Block on social-impact focused opportunities in Israel and globally.

Ollie Blears
Legal & Regulatory Advisor
Ollie Blears
Legal & Regulatory Advisor

Ollie is a partner at RW Blears and was previously at Allen & Overy and Bridgepoint. He has a number of years experience working with a range of market participants building and investing in web 3.0 infrastructure. Ollie advises Eden Block on legal and regulatory matters across the fund and its portfolio.

5+ YEARS
In the blockchain industry
25+ YEARS
Of investment experience
$500m+
Cumulative capital deployed
$10bn+
Cumulative exit valuations
20+ EXITS
Successfully coordinated

Our Greenhouse Of Research

Investment Thesis for Gensyn
Deep diving into how Gensyn are enabling an open infrastructure for cost-efficient ML compute
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Decentralization, A Cultural Revolution
Recognizing web3 as a version of Eden, and approximating the radical decentralization of humanity’s oldest systems to a new form of Genesis.
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Nym investment thesis
Nym's ultimate vision is to build a platform that sustains the privacy demands of every global internet user and application.
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NFTs and Beyond
Creating scarcity in an infinite world changes everything. Our entire concept of the physical and digital metaverse has changed.
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Vega Protocol Investment Thesis
Capital markets infrastructure for DeFi that will enable the creation of new markets by those closest to the market, the traders themselves.
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Pocket Network Investment Thesis
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Gradually, then Suddenly
The UK could cement its recognition as a world-leader in financial technology if it equips itself now with a regulatory framework fit for the future.
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A Genesis Story
Today, Eden Block brings the most multidisciplinary, specialized, and demonstrated investment team into the uncharted world of blockchain ventures. Our mission is to bridge the colossal gap between opportunity and execution within this nascent industry.
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Social Capital in the 21st Century
Looking ahead to 2021 and beyond, values can act as the catalyst that sparks greater coordination and innovation in cryptonetworks; the light that guides us across the chasm to mainstream adoption of ten million-plus daily active crypto users.
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Biconomy Investment Thesis
Technologies that reduce friction expand markets. Biconomy is building transactional infrastructure for the decentralised web. Its platform abstracts away crypto transaction complexities for both developers and users.
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Defensibility in the Time of DeFi
Decentralised finance (DeFi) is an ecosystem of finance applications on Ethereum that enables traditional financial services such as lending, borrowing, trading, and asset management, but in a fully self-custodial environment, so that no one entity (like a bank) controls your assets.
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Beyond The Box
Innovation is what sets us, as humans, apart from the natural world. Through innovation, we realize our profound ability to impact our environment.
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DeFi: Crashing the Counterparty
Follow the dollar and it inevitably leads through centralized entities. Capitalism might have democratized our economic systems but monetary policy remains stubbornly centralized.
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Money and Value: An Unstable Relationship
The dramatic emergence of decentralized finance (DeFi) in the past decade, and more recently in the past year, has raised serious concerns regarding the volatility of digital decentralized assets.
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TELLING THE FOUNDER'S STORIES

EPISODE 5
How Catapult is empowering Web3 communities to connect, collaborate, and build.
January 24, 2023
Rav Singh Sadhu & Gregory Wilsenach
Founders
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Episode 4
Building an improved financial ecosystem with the ethics, efficacy, and progressive direction of decentralization.
October 14, 2022
Barney Mannerings
Co-founder, Vega Protocol
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EPISODE 3
Community, opportunity, and democratizing NFTs so that the chance to build and collect the next BAYC is accessible to anyone.
October 14, 2022
Isaac Kamlish & Isaac B.
Fair.xyz
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EPISODE 2
Replacing opinion with blockchain in farming
October 14, 2022
Luis Macias
CEO & Co-founder, GrainChain
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EPISODE 1
On China, Biconomy, and a frictionless multi-chain future.
October 14, 2022
Ahmed Al-Balaghi
CEO & Co-founder of Biconomy
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