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Arca

4151 Redwood Ave., Los Angeles, CA, 90066, United States

Overview

Arca is an institutional grade financial services firm building products utilizing and investing in digital assets. The Arca team blends the time-tested attributes of traditional finance with the transparency, immutability, and efficiency of the blockchain to create institutional-caliber products designed to seamlessly allow today's' investors to transition into the digitally-powered global economy of the future.

Total investments
31
Lead investments
5
Investments · 12mo
1
Active investors
10

Sector focus

  • Finance
  • Financial Services
  • FinTech
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Investment portfolio

  • 375ai

    Participated · Equity · Oct 2025

    Founded in 2022, Los Angeles-based 375ai deploys AI-powered 375edge devices—combining HD cameras, audio and environmental sensors with NVIDIA Jetson compute—to process raw data locally and deliver structured intelligence in real time. Each device compresses roughly 1 TB of daily input into just 35 MB of usable insights, a 26,000× reduction that lowers bandwidth costs and preserves privacy. The network already observes 1.5 million vehicles per day through high-value sites obtained via a partnership with Outfront Media, serving customers in advertising, logistics, public safety and urban planning. Current live deployments span Los Angeles, with roll-outs underway in New York and Miami and international expansion slated for 2026. 375ai positions itself as core infrastructure for “physical AI,” enabling smarter mobility systems, safer streets and more efficient autonomous operations. The company is led by CEO Harry Dewhirst and a team with prior experience at Juniper Networks, Palo Alto Networks, Fortinet and other telecom and security firms. To date, the startup has raised $10 million in equity funding, including its latest $5 million infusion that will fund denser network coverage and continued product development.

  • Beamable

    Participated · Series A · Feb 2025

    Beamable builds decentralized infrastructure for gaming and provides an open, extensible game server platform. The platform lets developers create online games and virtual worlds in minutes and quickly add player auth, analytics, social, commerce, inventory, content management, meta-game features, GenAI and Web3 capabilities. The company is led by CEO Jon Radoff. Beamable plans to develop and scale its Network, a decentralized physical infrastructure network (DePIN) intended to redefine how backend infrastructure for games is built and operated. It raised $13.5M in Series A financing to fund development and scaling of the Network. The company is based in Boston, MA. Beamable provides a Software-as-a-Service platform that helps game makers continuously operate, update, monetize and socialize their games. The platform is integrated with the Unity 3D engine, enabling developers to focus on creativity and differentiation. Led by CEO Jon Radoff, the company has signed up over 100 game studios since last year. Over 20 million users have accessed games built on Beamable, resulting in $150M in revenue transacted through the platform. Beamable raised approximately $5M in an equity funding round and intends to use the proceeds to expand operations and its business reach. The company is based in Boston, MA. Disruptor Beam builds franchise-based mobile games, including Game of Thrones Ascent (2013) and Star Trek Timelines. The company says revenue grew more than 300% last year, driven largely by Timelines, and over 15 million people have played its games. It plans to keep developing existing titles and launch new franchise games currently in development. Next up is The Walking Dead: March to War, a multiplayer strategy game scheduled for release sometime in 2017. Leadership also plans to use funding to build out a publishing platform for marketing, customer acquisition and support. The team is monitoring the impact of the new Star Trek Discovery TV show and may incorporate elements from the show into Timelines.

  • Nevermined

    Participated · Equity · Jan 2025

    Nevermined provides AI payment infrastructure to enable AI-to-AI transactions, positioning itself as a 'PayPal for AI' that lets AI agents pay and get paid. Its protocol manages payments, usage tracking, and credit systems, acting as a finance and billing management platform for AI agents and tools. The company emphasizes variable pricing models and dynamic payment capabilities to address limitations of traditional payment systems in AI‑Commerce. Nevermined was launched by Don Gossen and Aitor Argomaniz, who previously built Ocean Protocol, and combines expertise in machine learning, AI, data, and Web3. It has partnerships with Olas, Naptha, peaq, FLock, and Combinder. The recent funding will be used to accelerate go‑to‑market, expand the team, and strengthen partnerships within the AI ecosystem. Nevermined provides a digital asset development platform that streamlines the creation, monetization and management of decentralized digital assets. Its modular platform includes components such as a Tokenization Engine, Marketplace Creator, Royalties Engine, Decentralized Access Control, a DAO Framework and DISC (Data In-Situ Computation) for remote computation. The company positions its technology to make Web3 accessible by enabling users to create and monetize digital assets and participate in a read-write-own vision of the web. Nevermined was founded by CEO Don Gossen, CTO Aitor Argomaniz and CIO Dimitri De Jonghe. The company raised €3M in a seed round and intends to use the funds to enhance its platform. The business is based in Zug, Switzerland.

  • Moku

    Participated · Equity · Sep 2024

    Moku operates as a Web3 publisher with a platform called Moku HQ designed to put publishing power into the hands of gamers and creators. The company aims to build a distribution ecosystem where community members act as co-publishers and share in success. Moku positions itself as a distribution advantage on Ronin and focuses on aligning incentives between developers, publishers, and players via token-based rewards. The team emphasizes community-driven growth, activating communities and ecosystems to drive traffic and engagement. Moku plans to accelerate development of its platform and broader ecosystem to bring the next wave of games to market alongside creators. Financially, the company announced a $5.35M investment round led by major web3 backers.

  • Skyfire Systems

    Participated · Seed · Aug 2024

    Skyfire Systems has built an open payment protocol that gives AI agents secure wallet access, verifiable identity, and instant settlement rails so they can purchase products and services without human intervention. The platform already processes payments between AI agents and enterprises such as Emergence AI, Pricing Culture, Venice AI, Micro1, OpenRouter and Net Nut. To keep on-chain costs low, Skyfire is integrated with Base, Coinbase’s Layer-2 blockchain, where average transaction fees run below one cent. The company also supports the Coinbase Wallet, letting agents hold value and transact with other agents, companies or individuals. In just weeks since launch, the network has begun commercial payment flows for LLM aggregators and large financial-services firms. Skyfire plans to use its new capital to expand operations and accelerate product development. Following the latest raise, the San Francisco-based company’s total funding stands at $9.5 million.

Team

  • Rayne Steinberg

    CEO, Co-Founder

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  • Philip Liu

    Co-Founder & Chief Legal Officer

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  • Matthew P. Hepler

    Vice President, Portfolio Manager

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  • Sarah Legenza

    VP of Content

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