Programs & funding
Elevate your project with accelerator programs, strategic guidance, and deep ecosystem insight. Whether you're raising funds, growing users, or boosting traction — Sui provides the support to scale with purpose.
Join a program designed to help early-stage founders launch, grow, and raise on Sui.
Hydropower
Sui Foundation’s official accelerator, offering hands-on support, mentorship, and connections to capital. No equity is taken up front for joining the program.
DeFi Moonshots program
An initiative focused on the top teams building the next category-defining DeFi protocol on Sui. Selected teams may receive up to $500k in liquidity incentives, direct collaboration with DeFi engineering specialists, and more.
Academic research awards
If you're doing research that pushes forward the science or security of blockchain tech, you can apply for the $25k research award through this program.
Direct investment from Sui Foundation
For high-impact projects aligned with Sui’s long-term goals, the Foundation may make direct, strategic investments—typically in teams building core primitives or ecosystem-wide apps.
Request for Proposals (RFPs)
Apply to solve specific technical or ecosystem challenges that the Sui Foundation is actively funding.
Node Capital, Amplify Partners, Liquid2 Ventures, FalconX, Tykhe Block Ventures, Lightshift, Token Bay Capital, Collider, Zero Knowledge Ventures, NoLimit Holdings, Rubik Ventures, Dispersion Capital, Insignius Capital, Impatient Ventures, Cerulean Ventures, Earl Grey Capital, HDI Ventures, Flowdesk, TPC Ventures, Purechain Capital, Solr DAO, Heroic Ventures, Naval Ravikant, NotVCs, G-20 Group, Artifact Capital, DSRV, Encapsulate, Sui Foundation and many more.
Ika
Raised over $21 million in funding and a peak private valuation of $600M FDV. Working to build the fattest parallel MPC network.
Tower Research, and Wintermute.
Bluefin
Raised $17 million from a group of major venture firms and trading companies. Building a decentralized trading platform.
Gate Ventures, MEXC Ventures, and KuCoin Ventures.
Momentum
Raised a strategic funding round valued at $100 million. The round was led by OKX Ventures and included participation from key investors.
Zhuoxun Yin, Mechanism Capital, Mert Mumtaz, DCF GOD, Bodhi Ventures, Karatage, Mr Block, Comma3 Ventures, Balaji Srinivasan, Will Price, Big Brain Holdings, and others.
Suilend
Raised $6 million in a Seed funding round led by Robot Ventures with participation from key investors.
Echo, Polygon, Sandeep Nailwal, Sentient core contributor and Symbolic Capital co-founder Kenzi Wang, 0G Labs CEO Michael Heinrich, Allora Labs CEO Nick Emmons and Nuffle Labs co-founder Altan Tutar.
Talus Network
Raised $6 million in strategic funding led by Polychain Capital at a $150 million valuation. Building a high-throughput blockchain protocol designed for decentralized agents.
Four Pillars, Alpha DAO, Auros, Mysten Labs.
DoubleUp
Raised $4 million in a Seed funding round led by Karatage.
Oak Grove Ventures, Side Door Ventures, UOB Venture Management, Signum Capital, Cypher Capital, Mysten Labs, Kyros Ventures, Criterion, 8186 Capital, 7UpDao, LBank Labs, ViaBTC, Cetus Protocol, AC Capital, and Zellic.
Scallop Protocol
Raised $3 million co-led by CMS Holding and 6th Man Venture. Building a lending and borrowing protocol.
Hermeneutic, Sui Foundation, Axelar Foundation and Flow Foundation.
Printr
Raised $2.5 million in the firm's first financing round, from Sfermion, Draper Dragon, Bitscale, Hermeneutic, Sui Foundation, Axelar Foundation and Flow Foundation.
GeekCartel Capital, Nomad Capital, Coin98 Ventures, Cetus Protocol, Maverick, Viabtc, Assembly Partners, Gate.io, Hailstone Labs, Benqi, LBank Labs and Mysten Labs.
Navi Protocol
Raised $2 million to expand its innovative all-in-one lending, borrowing and LSDeFi platform. The funding round was co-led by OKX Ventures, dao5 and Hashed, with participation from other notable investors.
Animoca Ventures, Sui Foundation, Flow Traders, Dewhales Capital, Cetus, Scallop, etc.
Haedal
Successfully completed its seed round funding, with participation from industry-renowned investors.
Scallop, Bucket, Aftermath, AlphaFi and Sui Foundation.
Nemo
Successfully closed an ecosystem funding round led by Comma3 Ventures, with participation from many other investors.
Sui Network, Arche Fund, Antora Tech, Cetus Protocol, Navi Protocol, Haedal Protocol, Suilend Protocol
Ferra
Raised $2 million pre-seed round led by Comma3 Ventures and Arche Fund (the investment arm of Coin98).
Mantle EcoFund, Mirana Ventures, L1D, Sfermion, and Flowdesk, Arche Fund
Printr
Raised an additional $2< in a seed extension round, bringing its total funding to $4.5 million.
SevenX Ventures, Puzzle Ventures, Topspin Ventures.
Magma Finance
Raised $6 million in strategic funding to build an adaptive liquidity engine. Backed by high-conviction partners: HashKey Capital, SNZ Holding, SevenX Ventures, Puzzle Ventures, Topspin Ventures.
Mozilla Ventures, gmjp, DGDV, Balaji Srinivasan, Sebastien Borget.
Webacy
Successfully closed a new round of funding with key investors like GSR_io and Sui Network.
Bluefin acquired 7K's aggregator backend technology. Through the partnership, Bluefin launched Bluefin7K - a Sui-native aggregator that routes through a network of DEXs and Bluefin’s RFQ engine, offering users the best rates and the deepest liquidity on Sui Network.
Navi Protocol announced the acquisition of Volo, a premier liquid staking service provider.
Bluefin acquired a significant stake in @insidex_trade - the all-in-one trading terminal on Sui.
