QA Engineer
Pod Network
UK & Europe, Turkey & Eastern Europe, South Africa, UAE / Gulf region, India · Full Time · 24 Jun, 2026
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Analyst signals
Portfolio activity and matriculation
Metrics use all recorded activity through 22 Jul 2026 across pre seed, seed, series a, strategic, unknown. Later-round outcomes are capped at the period end.
29.2%companies with a later round · 7/24
7.50×median round-size step-up · n=5
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0%recorded-solo rate · 0 solo / 25 syndicated
Finance · 6 companiesInfrastructure · 3 companiesPayments · 3 companies
These are activity signals, not fund-return metrics. Round capital is the full disclosed financing amount, not this fund's check size. “Recorded solo” means only one investor is present in the source data and is a lead signal, not verified lead status; syndicated rounds are a co-investor or follower signal. IRR, TVPI, DPI, ownership, exits, and market beta cannot be calculated from the available records.
Opportunities
Crypto jobs across Protagonist's portfolio
7 current roles at companies backed by Protagonist, sourced from JobStash's crypto job board.
Site Reliability Engineer
Pod Network
Remote · Full Time · 22 Jun, 2026
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Frontend Engineer
Pod Network
Mid-East, EU, UK or North America · Full Time · 22 Jun, 2026
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Backend Engineer
Pod Network
EU, UK or North America (Remote) · Full Time · 20 Mar, 2026
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Open Application
Pod Network
EU, UK or North America (Remote) · Full Time · 20 Mar, 2026
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Backend Engineer (HFT / Low-Latency Systems)
Pod Network
EU, UK or North America (Remote) · Full Time · 20 Mar, 2026
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Content & Growth Strategist
Pod Network
EU, UK or North America (Remote) · Full Time · 20 Mar, 2026
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People
Team
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George Bousis
Co-Founder & Managing Partner
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George Ruan
Co-Founder & Managing Partner
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Harry Hurst
Co-Founder & Managing Partner
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James Norris
Partner, CFO & Chief Compliance Officer
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Michael Gargiulo
Analyst
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Nick Malone
Principal
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Sevan Avakian
Partner, General Counsel and Chief Operating Officer
Portfolio
Investments
Full financing histories for portfolio companies. Highlighted rounds are those where Protagonist is recorded as an investor.
1Money Network
Finance
1Money Network builds the first Layer 1 blockchain exclusively for stablecoin payments with instant confirmations and fixed fees.
Aligned Layer
Aligned is a vertically integrated stack for building applications on a verifiable internet. It provides the foundation for provable execution with one-click solutions for wallets, rollups, interoperability, and ZK services for financial infrastructure and AI systems. The company is creating the foundation for a trustless, verifiable internet, empowering developers to build applications on Ethereum. Aligned is a blockchain infrastructure project, likely an Actively Validated Service (AVS), and is seeking operators for its Mainnet Beta.
Camp Network
Blockchain Platforms
Camp Network is a purpose-built Layer-1 blockchain and Autonomous IP Layer for AI agents and user-owned intellectual property. It enables creators, developers, and AI agents to register, license, remix, and monetize provenance-backed IP onchain.
Cardinal
Infrastructure
Cardinal builds Solana NFT infrastructure, protocols, and SDKs for conditional ownership and NFT use cases such as rentals, subscriptions, ticketing, identity, royalties, and rewards. The site states that Cardinal is winding down its protocols and UIs.
Fhenix
Privacy & Confidentiality
Fhenix is a blockchain R&D company building privacy-preserving infrastructure for Ethereum and EVM-compatible chains using fully homomorphic encryption (FHE). Its CoFHE coprocessor and developer tooling enable confidential smart contracts and private DeFi applications.
Holonym Foundation
Privacy & Confidentiality
Holonym Foundation operates human.tech, a privacy-first digital identity and control framework for people, institutions, and AI. It provides cryptographic identity, wallet, and privacy tools for digital services, including government and onchain use cases.
Payments
IDA Finance Hong Kong Limited is a Hong Kong-based technology company providing stablecoin-related digital payment and financial services. It aims to support cross-border commerce, remittances, trade financing, and digital-asset transactions.
Levl
Payments
Levl is a regulated payments infrastructure company providing cross-border payment services in fiat and stablecoins to businesses globally.
Merit Systems
Payments
Merit Systems builds products and developer tools for open agentic commerce. Its services help AI agents discover, pay for, and interact with APIs and other digital resources using protocols such as x402 and MPP.
Finance
Mill City Ventures III, Ltd is a NASDAQ-listed company (MCVT) that operates as a non-bank lender and specialty finance firm, providing high-interest short-term lending arrangements. It serves as a gateway for investors to the Sui ecosystem, utilizing blockchain and stablecoins to innovate its lending services.
Mirai Labs
Mirai Labs builds consumer apps designed for real people, with smart tech and a fresh perspective. We turn complex ideas into intuitive experiences, creating products that users genuinely love.
Nubit
Nubit is the Bitcoin Thunderbolt, a platform designed to boost the Bitcoin network to another level with Bitcoin Core. It is built for miners, clients, and users.
Perle
Data & Analytics
Perle provides expert-verified training data for AI models via configurable annotation workflows, quality assurance, and human evaluation.
Phoenix
Finance
Phoenix is a non-custodial, decentralized exchange for perpetual futures built on Solana. It lets users connect compatible wallets, fund accounts with USDC, and trade leveraged perpetual contracts.
Pod Network
Pod is a novel stake-based programmable layer one blockchain designed to bring optimal latency to decentralized systems. By using a simple design without blocks or chains, it aims to enable developers to build fast and user-friendly Web3 products. They have raised a $10M seed round from investors including a16z crypto.
RAAD
Service Provider
RAAD is an aerial intelligence platform that lets clients order drone imagery, 3D models, LiDAR data, and analysis online. It serves construction, utilities, telecoms, solar, commercial properties, insurance, and dock-based monitoring customers through a global pilot network.
RedStone Finance
Data & Analytics
RedStone provides modular oracle infrastructure for DeFi by delivering secure, customizable data feeds across multiple blockchain networks.
Renzo
Infrastructure
Renzo is an institutional-grade onchain platform for liquid staking, restaking, and capital deployment. It provides staking assets, managed strategy vaults, and a gated enterprise suite for individuals and institutions seeking transparent, onchain yield strategies.
Sentient Foundation
Infrastructure
Sentient Foundation is a Singapore-based nonprofit advancing open-source, decentralized AGI aligned with humanity. It conducts and supports open AI research, provides grants and investments, and operates AI applications and infrastructure for researchers, developers, and communities.
Silhouette
Privacy & Confidentiality
Silhouette is a platform for confidential on-chain trading that provides shielded orderflow, access to unfragmented liquidity via HyperCore's orderbook, and encryption-protected trade execution.
Temple Digital Group
Finance
Temple Digital Group is a trading and asset issuance platform on Canton Network, providing compliant and privacy-focused capital markets infrastructure for institutions and individuals.
TrustaLabs
Security
TrustaLabs builds Trusta AI, an identity and on-chain reputation protocol for AI and crypto. Its offerings include verifiable credentials, identity verification, reputation and credit scoring, and AI-agent identity services.
YieldPoint
Finance
YieldPoint is a multi-chain crypto-yield platform operated by XSY Foundation. Its Unity products include the synthetic dollar UTY and yield-bearing yUTY, using market-neutral strategies and on-chain transparency for individuals and institutions.
ZeroDelta
Finance
ZeroDelta is Glacis Labs’ clearing house for tokenized real-world assets and stablecoins. It matches institutional order flow to provide compliant, firm, zero-slippage cross-chain settlement for institutions, funds, payment platforms, issuers, wallets, and exchanges.