Arete Capital
A research-led digital asset hybrid fund allocating across public and early-stage private markets
About us
Arete Capital is a digital asset hybrid fund focused on capturing asymmetric opportunities in the early-stage private and liquid public markets. Founded by experienced partners with complementary backgrounds covering both digital asset and Institutional markets.
We combine a balanced portfolio of high conviction primary market allocations, where we provide an extensive multidisciplinary value add to the teams we underwrite, with diversified liquid exposure to discounted and de-risked market leading protocols poised for growth from secular tailwinds.
Our research
Arete Capital has a proprietary edge in technical digital asset research and a long-standing track record of publishing leading investment theses, based on first principles thinking across venture and liquid markets.
We combine our thesis-driven top-down research methodology with bottom-up fundamental analysis to identify the high-conviction primary market allocations and category-leading liquid digital asset opportunities primed for growth from secular tailwinds and upcoming catalysts.
Our portfolio
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DeFi
A market-leading NFT derivative DEX that combines both an AMM with a novel concentrated liquidity mechanism alongside a decentralised limit order book (DLOB).
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DeFi / RWA
A fixed-rate lending protocol that provides fixed-term loans for multiple collateral types encompassing stablecoins, LSTs, RWAs and restaking LSTs.
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Web3 Gaming
A Web3 Gaming Studio who are developing one of the most anticipated Web3 mobile MMORPGs Treeverse alongside other flagship titles such as Capsule Heroes.
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DeFi / RWA
Real-world assets (RWA) tokenisation protocol focused on providing Institutional-grade financial products and services to on-chain market participants.
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DeFi / RWA
A derivative DEX engineered specifically for real-world assets (forex, commodities and equities), enabling on-chain synthetic exposure to traditional asset classes.
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DeFi
A high-frequency CLOB derivative DEX built on Starknet leveraging state-of-the-art low-latency ZK-STARK technology pioneered by Starkware.
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Web3 AI
A consumer-focused image generation product suite that leverages crypto payment rails to bypass imposed prompt censorship from traditional Web2 payment providers.
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Layer 2 Infra
Ethereum-based layer-2 that combines Solana Virtual Machine (SVM) execution, Celestia data availability layer and Risc0 zero-knowledge settlement layer.
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Web3 Consumer
A consumer product that aims to tackle the broken UX prevalent across all blockchain networks, simplifying cross-chain operations and management of a multi-chain portfolio.
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Web3 Gaming
A Web3 Gaming Studio that is developing Everseed a flagship tabletop tower defense game with an Animal Crossing-style open world.
Contact us
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We are actively backing early-stage founders across the real world asset, decentralised finance and Web3 Gaming verticals. Arete Capital has a proven track record of providing a multidisciplinary value add to our portfolio companies aiding founders achieve product-market fit.