Cipholio Ventures

Cipholio Ventures is a small-sized, but very ambitious venture capital firm, based in New York, and driven by a highly competent team with renowned founders in the crypto space. The fund was started in 2021 by Eric Bai (concurrently the CEO of the newly-acquired blockchain media platform MetaEra), and Sheldon Xia, a BitMart founder and CEO.

The fund also cultivates its own 10-week Accelerator Program, which is dedicated to establishing a comprehensive incubator for most promising startups in the blockchain sector. Cipholio partners with a group of diverse market leaders, as BitMart, Consensys, Avalanche, Cardano, Galxe, and others, to bring together the industry's most prominent thought leaders and active participants, to facilitate the exchange of knowledge, case study presentations, and institutional connections.

Such a vantage point and wide networking enable the fund to quickly garner the industry's support and facilitate an impressive jump towards a successful market fit for its emerging portfolio companies. 

Among remarkable portfolio projects the fund has invested in, we can find Gari Network, Good Crypto, Aquanee, IQ Protocol, Crema Finance, Mina Protocol, Alchemy Pay, Dexilion, DeSyn Protocol, Dora Factory,  DAO Maker, Mintverse, NFTScan, WOO Network, and many others.

Here is the current balance of interests in the portfolio.

Total number of investments: 37

• GameFi: 18.2%
• NFT: 18.2%
• Social: 9.1%
• Blockchain Service: 9.1%
• CeFi: 9.1%
• DeFi: 36.4%