Participated · Seed · Jun 2026

Founded in 2025 by Aleph Lasebikan and Paul Joe, Daya is building a financial operating layer that helps African businesses manage cross-border payments more efficiently. The platform lets users collect funds in local currencies, convert them intelligently using stablecoin rails, and settle payments globally. Daya targets businesses, freelancers, and companies that frequently make international payments or pay suppliers across borders. The startup has raised $2.4M in a pre-seed round led by Hivemind Capital with participation from Lattice, Alliance, Globelink, and the Aptos Foundation. Daya plans to deploy the funding to build infrastructure aimed at reducing cost, complexity, and friction in moving money across African and global markets.

Participated · Equity · Nov 2025

CreatorFi operates a lending platform that issues and services stablecoin (USDC) loans on-chain. Its core product lets content creators, gaming studios, and media enterprises collateralize future media revenues to obtain working capital quickly and transparently. The company has launched on the Aptos Layer-1 blockchain and entered a strategic partnership with the Aptos Foundation and Aptos Labs to bolster ecosystem adoption. Borrowers receive and repay loans entirely in USDC, streamlining cross-border access to credit. To fuel product roll-out and geographic expansion, CreatorFi recently raised USD 2 million. Management intends to widen the range of credit products offered on Aptos, suggesting forthcoming feature and market expansion. No operational metrics such as revenue or active user counts were disclosed, but the financing underscores early traction and investor confidence.

Participated · Seed · Nov 2024

Shinami is a San Francisco–based developer platform focused on Move-based blockchains (Aptos, Sui, and Movement), offering advanced tooling, APIs, and documentation to simplify building on Move. Its core products include a Node Service, a Gas Station, and Wallet Services that target developer and end-user needs. The Node Service powers billions of monthly on-chain reads across hundreds of applications, the Gas Station has sponsored over 100 million transactions to date, and the Wallet Services support more than 2 million monthly active users. The company positions itself as the "Consensys for Move" and has joined the Move Collective to strengthen its support for developers expanding on Movement. Shinami cites team experience building developer platforms at Twilio, Microsoft, and Alchemy as shaping its approach to product and ecosystem support. The company says the recent funding will help it continue providing infrastructure and tools to improve user experiences across Sui, Aptos, and Movement.

Participated · Grant · Jun 2024

Qiro Finance is a Singapore‑headquartered decentralized finance startup building a decentralized credit protocol to bridge credit gaps in emerging markets. Founded by Akshay Poshatwar and Nishikant Bahalkar, the company connects non‑banking financial institutions in emerging markets with global investors using blockchain and stablecoin technologies. Its protocol facilitates tokenized real‑world asset (RWA)‑backed credit applications by integrating asset originators, investors, and credit underwriters and aims to provide open credit data and risk underwriting infrastructure. Qiro plans to initially support fintech asset originators in Southeast Asia with plans to expand into other emerging markets. The startup recently closed a $1.2M funding round and has also received a 100,000 MATIC grant from Polygon and a $50,000 development grant from the Aptos Foundation. The company positions itself to mitigate limited non‑bank credit access in emerging markets and to scale RWA credit on‑chain with a protocol‑level risk management layer.

Participated · Equity · Feb 2024

Yooldo is a blockchain game platform that completed a $1.5M financing at a $13M valuation. Participating investors included Bedrock Ventures, Double jump.tokyo, Edimus, Hyperithm, Klaytn Foundation, Manta Network, Neopin, Planetarium, Presto Labs and Vista Labs. In addition, grant sponsors listed were Aptos Foundation, BNB Chain, Immutable X and Oasys. The company said the proceeds will be used to refine its technology, bring more games onto the platform, and grow its community. No operating metrics were disclosed in the article.