A major factor in our efforts to architect and support the digital economy and power the Web3 world is what we do from BCW Ventures at BCW Group.
BCW Ventures is the forward-thinking sector of BCW Group that has access to a broad range of early-stage investment opportunities from newcomers and industry incumbents.
Our investment thesis is simple: digital infrastructure will power a Web3 and AI future. This belief permeates our decision-making process in how we choose which opportunities to pursue and how to support them.
The BCW Ventures team takes pride in participating in and advising dedicated teams who are focused on revolutionising the digital world. Our involvement goes beyond just investments as we provide support in other ways, such as advising the entrepreneurs who founded and lead the teams building innovations in the industry.
Why We Invest: The BCW Advantage
We understand that capital is just one part of the equation. Founders choose BCW Ventures because we bring more than just funding to the table. Our competitive edge lies in:
- Industry Reach: Deep connectivity across the global Web3 ecosystem.
- Market Knowledge: Unrivaled insights into enterprise and decentralized trends.
- Information Asymmetry: Access to critical data and strategic intelligence.
- Unique Deal Flow: Early access to high-potential opportunities before the wider market.
- Diverse Advisory Team: Guidance from experts across finance, technology, and strategy.
- Partner Network: Direct lines to global acquirers, tech giants, and blockchain foundations.
How Digital Infrastructure is Powering Web3
The core of what we do at BCW Ventures is support the development of technology that will power the future of AI, cloud, and the on-demand digital universe.
It is difficult to overlook the significant impact that Web3 technology is having on the financial world. We intend to see those impacts increase by fostering ideas from elite teams solving clear problems
The sectors our Ventures arm actively invests in include:
- Decentralised Finance (DeFi)
- L1/L2 Networks
- Payments Infrastructure
- Financial Security Infrastructure
- Staking Services
- Data Oracles
- Mining Infrastructure
- Gaming & Metaverse
Layer 1 and Layer 2 Networks
New Layer 1 (L1) and Layer 2 (L2) blockchain networks have been the talk of the industry since they provide the important blockspace for the dApps and products that need to live onchain. A diversity of blockspace also gives dApp developers a greater array of choices for where they want to build and deploy their solutions and products.
BCW Ventures helps foster more options for builders by supporting new L1s and L2s within and beyond the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) ecosystem. Our investment criteria focus on disruptive solutions with scalable technology and a massive addressable market.
The latest investment from our ventures arm is in stakeFi, an institutional staking and validator node operations platform. We angel invested in it and are instrumental in bringing it to launch in Q2 2026.
Our portfolio highlights in this sector include:
Polygon
The Polygon network is a popular Ethereum sidechain. Stake your $POL tokens with BCW’s Polygon validator.
Hedera
Hedera is a decentralized public network that goes beyond traditional blockchain.
Nillion
Nillion is a “blind computer” network that focuses on privacy. Stake your $NIL tokens with BCW’s Nillion validator.
MANTRA
MANTRA Chain is an L1 Cosmos-based blockchain purpose-built for the tokenization of Real-World Assets (RWAs). Stake your $OM tokens with BCW’s Mantra validator.
SUPRA
Supra aims to unlock fully onchain automation as an L1 network with high-performance smart contract execution designed for DeFi applications.
XPLA
XPLA, formerly known as C2X, is an L1 using the Cosmos SDK to host major gaming IP titles such as Summoners War: Chronicles adapted for Web3.
Web3 Payments Infrastructure and DeFi
BCW Group is a pioneering partner with some of the largest global acquirers in the world, including Worldpay and Paysafe. Those acquirers, credit card issuers such as Visa, and other financial institutions like Stripe and Artemis have begun enabling payments with stablecoins at global merchants.
Visa alone processed an estimated $11T in stablecoin-based payments in 2025, a nearly twofold increase from 2024 totals, which shows the tremendous growth potential for this sector.
As a result, we have unique insights into the needs of major financial institutions, often with stablecoins and DeFi applications. This is why BCW Ventures is actively investing in Web3 payments infrastructure and DeFi that we believe will constitute the future of finance. Our investments in this sector include:
REAP
Reap is a global financial platform that bridges Traditional Finance (TradFi) and Web3.
Hex Trust
Hex Trust is a fully-licensed institutional digital asset custodian.
Clearpool
Clearpool is a decentralized capital markets ecosystem that connects institutional borrowers directly with decentralized finance (DeFi) lenders.
Velocity
Velocity is a financial infrastructure platform designed to unify traditional banking and digital assets into a single, secure ecosystem.
SecondSwap
SecondSwap is a decentralized secondary marketplace designed for trading locked or vested digital assets.
Synnax
Synnax is a decentralized credit intelligence platform that aims to revolutionize how creditworthiness is assessed in the digital asset space.
ETHGas
ETHGas is a novel infrastructure project aiming to solve Ethereum’s infamous gas wars by transforming raw blockspace into a structured, tradable asset class.
Rousseau Group
Rousseau Group designs and builds systems that submerge high-powered computing equipment (like Bitcoin miners and HPC servers) into specialized, non-conductive fluids.
SOMA
Soma Finance is a fully compliant and regulated decentraized exchange (DEX) that aims to bridge the gap between traditional finance and DeFi.
HNS
HNS is a decentralized naming system and identity layer built specifically for the Hedera network.
Openblocks
OpenBlocks is the foundational data and tooling layer for the Supra ecosystem.
Staking
The commercial and enterprise demand for staking services is rapidly growing, as we illustrated in our Institutional Staking Report. We support this growth not only through our venture investments but also through our own innovations like stakeFi — our whitelabel institutional staking and validation infrastructure.
stakeFi
stakeFi is an institutional-grade staking platform that utilizes the many validator nodes BCW Technologies currently operates. Securely stake, earn rewards, monitor performance, and generate reports from one platform.
Metaverse and Web3 Gaming
Web3-based gaming platforms, or GameFi platforms, have shown promise in generating revenue for sustainable businesses and stickiness among users by issuing healthy gamer revenues. The top games are hosting gamers using over a million unique active wallets per month, and the top-ten gaming and metaverse tokens combine for an impressive $1.7B market cap.
Additionally, we are very excited for what the future brings for firms and entrepreneurs developing solutions for Metaverse applications. Our investments in these areas include:
Animoca Brands
Animoca Brands is a leading Web3 game software developer that is driving the adoption of digital property rights.
Gamefi Ventures
Gamefi Ventures acts as an early-stage investor and strategic partner for projects at the intersection of GameFi and DeFi.
Conclusion
As the Web3 landscape evolves, BCW Ventures will continue supporting early-stage teams that demonstrate scalable technology and a clear vision.
We invest in tomorrow.
If you would like to share your opportunity with BCW Ventures, please reach out to us on our contacts page.
