Founded in 2021, Mapleblock is a venture capital investment firm based in

Delhi, India. The firm seeks to invest in the blockchain, decentralized

finance, and cryptocurrency sectors. Mapleblock Capital is an investment firm that
exclusively consults and invests in crypto-assets and blockchain companies.

The year 2021 witnessed the biggest volume of investments in the

Web3.0 ecosystem. Venture Capital (VC) firms have enabled the
upcoming innovations by their strategic partnerships. One of the
rising names in the industry was Mapleblock Capital, a rapidly
growing digital assets investments firm with roots and its teams in
four different regions - India, Indonesia, the USA, and the Middle
East.
The VC firm invested in over 40+ top-tier blockchain projects
(Majorly infrastructure based) during the year 2021 with overall
120+ investments. Mapleblock Capital has followed a thesis-based
investment strategy, creating a strong & diversified portfolio across
most blockchains. Some of these themes were:
• Infrastructure Projects
• Metaverse, NFT & GameFi
• DeFi
• DAO
1) Infrastructure Projects
Mapleblock Capital recently made strategic investments in projects
like Safle & Router protocol. Safle aims at creating a multi-chain
wallet that is capable of functioning across all Layer 1 and Layer 2
solutions. Router Protocol aims at building a universal cross-chain
communication and asset transfer protocol thus solving the
problem of liquidity fragmentation across many Layer 1 and Layer 2
solutions.
Founder of Mapleblock Capital via a different structure also
invested in projects like Ankr, Marlin, Astar, Nayms, Parastate,
Polkadot, Algorand, Elrond, Casper Labs, Saito, Sienna, AscendEx,
Sifchain, Tokocrypto, SigmaDex, Crust Nodle, Powerloom, Pocket
Network, DAOMaker, Polkafoundry, Oasis Network, Conflux and
many more.
Chandan, Co-founder of Router Protocol said “We are thrilled that
Mapleblock shares our vision of a cross-chain future and has joined
us in our journey to build Router Protocol. We believe Mapleblock's
expertise and connections in the DeFi space will be a significant
value-add to our project”.
2) Metaverse & GameFi
Mapleblock Capital was also early on the rapidly growing Metaverse
& GameFi ecosystem by adding Nitro League, Kawaii Islands, and
Good Games Guild to its portfolio. The teams behind these projects
brings deep experience from traditional gaming along with an in-
depth understanding of Crypto Tokenomics and community
building.
Mapleblock also partnered with Good Games Guild and Decentral
Games to create a $15 Million fund for the expansion of Gaming,
and the Metaverse ecosystem.
Founder of Mapleblock Capital via a different structure also
invested in projects like Terra Virtua, Decentral Games, Coinburp,
Faraland, Blockchain Cuties, Trace Network, etc.
Miles, Founder of Decentral Games said "It's been a pleasure to
have Mapleblock on board as an early investor and active ecosystem
participant. Mapleblock founder and rest of the team have a deep
understanding of blockchain gaming economics that are key to
establishing long term sustainability".
Vijay Pravin, founder of Bitscrunch said “With NFTs becoming a
norm, bitsCrunch will help secure the NFT ecosystem using
Artificial Intelligence. Mapleblock, is one of the best in class
investors who brings in so much of value add, and make us feel like
there is an extended team for bitsCrunch”
Wilsen, Co-founder of Good Games Guild said, “Mapleblock is an
early investor who helped us a lot on P2E strategy and made right
and fruitful connections that helped us grow and diversify. It's been
a great journey with Mapleblock and we hope we can work with
them for years to come”.
Founder of Faraland said “Maple Block has been a supportive and
encouraging partner. As an experienced venture, they have provided
us a lot of helpful advices.
Harry, founder of Metaprint and Bondly said “Metaverse is a
exploding sector with create-to-earn opportunities. We are happy to
have Mapleblock as strategic partner to support us with brand
onbording, accelerating web3 adoption with Metaprints”
3) DeFi
Mapleblock Capital also invested in PrimeX and DeFi Land in the
DeFi space. Primex is an on-margin trading protocol to bridge the
gap between traditional finance and DeFi by building a new truly
decentralized and open trading infrastructure. DeFi Land is a DeFi
asset management platform built under a layer of P2E farming
game.
They also invested in projects like Reef, Tidal Finance, Knit Finance,
Domination Finance, Equilibrium, Xend Finance, Rikkie Finance,
etc. via different structures.
Dmitry, Co-founder of PrimeX Finance said “We are excited to have
such great support from the world’s leading DeFi-focused investors
like Mapleblock”.
Founder of DeFi Land said “MapleBlock helped us to find the right
partners around all the different industries to make sure DeFi Land
succeeds. They work very closely and continuously provides
feedback and advise on the product”.
Denko, Founder of Reef Finance said “Mapleblock is our earliest
and longest-term backer. They provide invaluable insight, guidance
and network in the blockchain landscape”.
4) DAO
The team early identified DAOs as an emerging trend of the year
2021. Mapleblock invested in New Order DAO which incubates and
accelerates DeFi projects across chains.
Eden Dhaliwal, Co-founder of New Order said, “Vijay is a very
progressive Web3 investor who understands the impact of DAOs
like New Order that are creating a new paradigm for venture.
Through Mapleblock, his thoughtful guidance has been
tremendously valuable for us on a number of fronts ranging from
DAO governance to liquidity mining to partnerships”.
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The firm has made several more undisclosed deals with some really
exciting projects in the space. Mapleblock Capital is focused to build
a strong brand and identity within the niche through its impressive
portfolio and strong support to new entrepreneurs.