Participated · Series C · Jun 2026

Founded in 2019 by Mayank Yadav, Rusk Media produces fiction, unscripted shows, animation, vertical dramas, and live entertainment formats for mobile and OTT consumption. Its content is distributed through platforms including Amazon MX Player, JioHotstar, social media channels, and its Alright! TV platform. The company reported revenue of Rs 81.38 crore in FY25, up 43.1% from Rs 56.85 crore in FY24, while losses narrowed to Rs 25.33 crore from Rs 28.70 crore the prior year. Rusk Media plans to use new funding to expand its content portfolio, scale Alright! TV, launch sports and audio-first formats, invest in AI-driven production tools, and extend existing intellectual properties like I-Popstar and Engaged into new languages and international markets. The company has raised roughly $32 million cumulatively following its latest Pre-Series C infusion.

Participated · Series A · May 2026

Magrathea develops a next-generation electrolytic process to extract magnesium metal from seawater and waste brines with a goal of producing carbon-neutral magnesium. The company operates a pilot facility in Oakland, California and is led by CEO Alex Grant. Magrathea positions its product to reduce reliance on traditional mining and on Chinese supply chains for magnesium. Following the Series A, the company intends to expand operations and continue development work, including building a demo smelter. Financially, Magrathea has just completed a $24M Series A; no revenue or user metrics were reported.

Participated · Seed · Sep 2025

PlaySuper operates a gaming commerce platform that embeds tangible, real-world rewards into digital games, allowing developers to boost engagement and monetize more effectively. By offering rewards-as-a-service, the company enables game studios to plug in sponsored prizes or discounts that players can redeem offline. The platform’s primary focus is on India and Southeast Asia, two regions with large, fast-growing mobile-gaming audiences. PlaySuper plans to use its newly raised capital to expand partnerships with both game publishers and consumer brands, deepen technical integrations, and bolster user acquisition efforts. Although the company has not publicly disclosed revenue figures or user numbers, the seed financing signals investor confidence in its commerce-driven monetization strategy. Headquartered in Gurugram, the startup positions itself at the intersection of gaming, advertising, and fintech, aiming to capture incremental value for all ecosystem participants.

Participated · Seed · Jun 2022

Afropolitan is a community-as-a-service startup that connects the African diaspora through events, travel, media and online community-building. Founded in 2016 by Eche Emole and Chika Uwazie, the company grew its audience via events and social audio (50,000 Clubhouse followers) and the founders’ combined following of over 200,000. Its core product vision is a phased “internet country” built with community tools including passport NFTs, a DAO and a super app offering remittances, e-residency, incorporation services and learn-to-earn initiatives. The company plans to mint 10,000 passport NFTs to activate its DAO and grant members access to events and physical spaces. Later phases target building seed institutions, subsidiary funds and negotiating for physical land to pursue sovereignty. Afropolitan has raised $2.1M in pre-seed to kick-start product development and community growth.

Participated · Series A · Sep 2021

Roll is an NYC-based social token infrastructure provider offering developer APIs and Ethereum smart-contract tools to create and integrate branded digital currencies. Co-founded by CEO Bradley Miles and CTO Sid Kalla and launched in 2019, Roll enables tokens to interact with traditional web platforms and smart-contract applications, including DeFi protocols. The platform supports use cases such as marketplaces, streaming, audio, gaming, chat and DAOs and is used by about 350 creators, from NFT innovators like Whaleshark to household names like Terry Crews. In the past month Roll's social tokens eclipsed $250MM in market value and saw over $2MM in daily trading volume. Roll emphasizes interoperability with DeFi protocols that collectively hold over $90 billion in total locked value. The company plans to open its APIs to more developers early next year and has raised $12.7M to date. Roll is a personal token/social money platform launched in summer 2019 that allows people with followings to create their own currency and define its usefulness. Creators can redeem tokens for perks such as guest-list access, and early buyers can speculate on a creator's future success. The company has integrations—such as a partnership with blockchain development platform Abridged—that enable use cases like gating Discord communities by token ownership. As of the article, Roll is used by 250 creators and processes about $500,000 of daily volume. One example token, $FIRST, trades for roughly $0.05 in ETH on Uniswap. Co-founder Sid Kalla said the platform represents a shift toward user-generated capital as the basis for the evolution of the social web. Roll builds a blockchain protocol and platform that creates “social money,” letting content creators mint branded tokens on Ethereum with supply limits enforced by smart contracts. Creators can distribute tokens to incentivize actions (for example, rewarding fans for posting about an episode) and redeem tokens for experiences like private video chats, line privileges at live events, or autographs. Roll holds a small pool of tokens minted by each creator as part of its business model and is currently facilitating token issuance and the formation of creator-token markets. The company positions social tokens as a way for creators to gain more control over monetization and reduce dependence on platform-controlled mechanisms, addressing de-platforming concerns. Roll expects early adopters among highly interactive verticals such as beauty vloggers, gaming streamers, and fitness personalities. Down the road, the company may seek to get creator tokens listed on exchanges or create its own exchange, though for now it is focused on enabling token creation and market activity.