Participated · Equity · Dec 2023

4EVERLAND builds a multi-chain, multi-protocol Web3 infrastructure that integrates DePIN basic infrastructures and protocols to offer developers decentralized front-end hosting, decentralized storage, global acceleration gateways, RPC, and off-chain computation. The platform supports storage protocols including IPFS, Arweave, Filecoin, and BNB Greenfield, and is integrated with numerous public chains such as Ethereum, Polygon, Solana, ZkSync, Opbnb, BNB Chain, Linea, Arbitrum, ZetaChain, and Scroll. 4EVERLAND has partnerships with decentralized domain services like ENS, SpaceID, .bit, and Bonfida, and claims deep collaborations with dozens of ecosystems. It reports adoption by over 238,000 developers and 139,000 projects, including Snapshot, RSS3, Lenster, Lenstube, and SyncSwap. The company has become the second-largest packaged storage infrastructure in the Arweave ecosystem, is a key storage infrastructure in the IPFS ecosystem, and is one of the initial storage service providers and verification nodes for BNB Greenfield. 4EVERLAND has also received grants from Polygon, Protocol Labs, Dfinity, and Arweave and was selected as the second-place winner in the BNB Chain Zero2Hero Incubator. 4EVERLAND is a blockchain technology-powered cloud computing platform designed to help developers build Web 3.0 applications efficiently. It features global acceleration, privacy protection, and distributed storage. The platform is based on IPFS and the underlying technology of Ethereum. 4EVERLAND is designed to provide a distributed, highly efficient, self-motivated, and low-cost data hosting gateway. The company plans to launch 4EVER-HOSTING and offer products and protocols such as DWeb hosting, a decentralized gateway, decentralized domain name system (DDNS), and data services. It raised $1.5 million in a seed round to develop and build the 4EVERLAND platform, with participation from multiple crypto-focused investors.

Participated · Seed · Oct 2023

Fileverse offers a decentralized file management and collaboration service positioning itself as an alternative to centralized providers like Google or Notion. The platform leverages smart contracts and stores encrypted data on the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) to avoid reliance on a single server provider. Fileverse also built cryptographic measures to be GDPR-compliant by design. The company emphasizes privacy and aims to bring recent crypto infrastructure and account-abstraction advancements to on-chain communication and collaboration tools. Financially, Fileverse completed a $1.5 million pre-seed raise and previously secured roughly $280,000 in grants and donations from Gitcoin community members, Polygon, ENS, a16z, Filecoin, and Aurora. The investment occurred amid a broader crypto funding slowdown, with venture capital fundraising at a three-year low.

Participated · Series A · Dec 2022

Fleek offers an interface and protocol layer to make base-layer Web3 services—like storage, hosting and billing—accessible to developers, with an initial focus on the content-delivery market. The company hosts about 50,000 apps today, mainly within the Ethereum ecosystem, and builds products on crypto protocols including Ethereum, Filecoin, Internet Computer, IPFS and Textile. Fleek plans to launch its Fleek Network in 2023, a decentralized edge network where anyone can run nodes and provide resources to the network. The startup aims to combine Web3 decentralization with Web2-like scale, throughput and latency while undercutting incumbent CDN pricing. Fleek targets bandwidth pricing below a penny per gigabyte compared with Cloudflare’s roughly $0.05–$0.15/GB. The fresh capital will be used to build out the Fleek Network and platform, hire additional talent and grow its community.

Participated · Equity · Sep 2022

Community Labs is an Arweave-native software development company and venture studio building developer tools and foundational infrastructure for Arweave’s permanent storage blockchain. It plans to develop critical developer tooling and ecosystem solutions, beginning with 3EM (Web 3 Execution Machine), a code-agnostic smart contract framework. The studio aims to onboard the next 1,000 active Arweave developers and support founders building on the permaweb, and models itself after ConsenSys. Community Labs is led by founder and CEO Tate Berenbaum, who has been building on Arweave since 2019. The company raised $30 million to power software development and a venture studio focused on Arweave adoption, ecosystem growth, and protocol development. Investors and partners are positioned to help scale infrastructure and developer onboarding across the Arweave ecosystem.

Participated · Seed · Aug 2022

RedStone is a modular oracle platform that delivers diverse, high-frequency data feeds to EVM Layer 1, Layer 2, Rollup-as-a-Service networks and non-EVM chains such as Starknet, Fuel Network, and TON. Its product emphasizes chain-agnostic delivery and a modular pricing engine to provide accurate, relevant feeds—specializing in yield-bearing collateral for lending markets, including LSTs and LRTs. The protocol claims a Total Value Secured (TVS) of $4 billion, coverage across more than 60 chains, and service to over 100 clients including EtherFi, Pendle, Morpho and Ethena. RedStone is testing Oracle Extractable Value (OEV) implementation with planned customer trials in the coming months and is preparing to launch a native token later this year. Recent corporate initiatives include Season 2 of RedStone Expedition to engage the community and accumulate RSG (RedStone Gems) points. RedStone builds a modular, cross‑chain oracle platform that delivers customizable real‑time data feeds to Web3 and DeFi protocols across EVM L1 and L2 networks. The company uses a proprietary ‘EVM‑connector’ method and a Data Access Layer to attach signed data packages to transactions and then erase them, a process it says can reduce gas costs by up to 90% while achieving sub‑second price feed latency. RedStone reports feeds delivered to over 40 chains, including Ethereum, Avalanche, Polygon, Celo, Optimism, Arbitrum, Fantom, Stacks and EVMOS, all with testnets. It emphasizes the ability to provide unique, non‑standard data feeds otherwise unavailable in the industry. Founded in 2021 with first production deployment in January 2023, RedStone recently completed a $7 million seed raise and is pursuing further cross‑chain expansion and broader DeFi adoption. RedStone is a Web3 startup that builds a cross-chain data oracle delivering pricing feeds to smart contracts and DeFi protocols. It uses the Arweave blockchain to provide affordable, permanent data storage with crypto and real-world data audit trails and offers modular Warp smart contracts on Arweave. The oracle serves over 30 chains, including Ethereum, Avalanche, Celo, Arbitrum, Polygon and Fantom, and covers long-tail tokens, Forex, commodities and more. Its product is designed to resist network congestion and to deliver data to projects every few seconds. RedStone plans to use new capital to grow the core team, increase presence at international conferences and hackathons, and expand partnerships with blockchains, protocols and applications. Financially, the company recently closed a $7M Seed round and had previously raised $525K in July 2021. RedStone is a Tallin, Estonia-based decentralized finance oracle platform that provides cross-chain pricing data for financial protocols. Led by CEO and founder Jakub Wojciechowski, the platform leverages the Arweave blockchain to create affordable storage with a permanent audit trail and an automatic dispute mechanism backed by insurance through staking. Today RedStone supports 150 assets across three providers with oracle query interval times of up to ten seconds. By using Arweave it aims to lower storage costs versus storing price data directly on transactional blockchains such as Ethereum, addressing high gas-fee challenges. The company intends to use the funds to expand partnerships with data providers and protocols and to work toward its long-term product roadmap, including cross-chain data bridges. The financing is intended to support continued development and scaling of its low-cost oracle service.