Participated · Seed · Dec 2022

Syncfy operates an open finance platform that exposes a single API to access data from 125+ banks, digital wallets, tax authorities, utility providers, crypto exchanges and blockchains across 15+ countries in Latin America and internationally. The company offers financial data aggregation and enrichment through its Connect, Fiscal, and Invoice Stamping API integrations. Syncfy also provides an all-in-one payments solution that enables customers to accept multiple payment methods, including crypto, within their apps or platforms. The company plans to use the new funding for geographic expansion and to launch new product offerings in data aggregation, enrichment, analytics and payments infrastructure. Syncfy is a subsidiary of Paybook and is led by CEO Gerardo Treviño. The recent seed financing improves its financial runway to support product expansion and regional growth.

Participated · Seed · Dec 2021

Led by CEO Fleur Heyns, Proof of Impact provides a digital product toolset that enables purpose-driven investors, asset managers, enterprises, consultants and other institutions to collect, verify and visualize ESG and impact data. The platform translates raw ESG and impact data into granular insights and contextual analysis to help clients understand and fulfill impact- and ESG-related objectives and tie verified impact to financial performance. Proof of Impact operates across more than 30 industries and serves a client base of over 100 companies spanning six continents. The company plans to expand its impact-linked finance solutions and accelerate go-to-market efforts focused on private credit and private equity fund managers. It also intends to further extend its core offering by incorporating blockchain-based innovations in the form of proprietary impact oracles. Proof of Impact provides a suite of digital products to collect, verify, and visualize ESG and impact data to draw granular insights and intelligence. The company is based in San Diego and is led by CEO Fleur Heyns. It plans to use new funding to accelerate and enhance its core product offerings and to hire additional talent. This year Proof of Impact expanded its client base and reported Annual Recurring Revenue growth at a 40% monthly compounded rate. The company increased total contract values by 65x from the prior year and doubled headcount to 15 employees. Hiring has focused across engineering, product, sales, and marketing. Proof of Impact is an Amsterdam-based, blockchain-powered marketplace founded in 2017 by Fleur Heyns that enables donors and impact investors to donate or invest directly into measurable impact outcomes. The platform allows impact implementers (NGOs, companies and initiatives) to deliver verifiable impact events at an individual level and sell them directly to buyers. All verified impact events are mapped to the relevant United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The company aims to securitize proven impact and offer liquid impact investment products and portfolios supported by blockchain technology to mobilize diversified capital. Proof of Impact intends to use the new funding to continue its growth trajectory and execute its securitization strategy to bring proven-impact products to global capital markets. The POI marketplace was scheduled to launch in the Netherlands in Q1 2020.

Participated · Equity · Sep 2018

Cointopia has built a marketplace that connects blockchain companies and startups with vetted service providers, including advisory, white paper authoring, PR/marketing, blockchain development, and community management. The San Francisco company raised $3 million to open the Cointopia Marketplace and will store provider ratings on the blockchain so reviews are immutable. CEO Charles Michael Yim created the platform to address what he described as a chaotic, globally unregulated crypto space and to provide an end-to-end, gold-standard market. In addition to the marketplace, Cointopia offers a compliant launchpad for initial coin offerings and lets users upload RFPs, share project details, and receive online bids from curated vendors. The company currently has 10 employees and plans to open offices in South Korea and Singapore to expand into Asia, where it says most activity is occurring. Named initial vendors include Hybrid Block, Sparkchain, and Token Agency.

Participated · Equity · Aug 2018

MyCrypto is an open-source interface that enables users to store, send, and receive digital assets. The platform provides tools to create new wallets and to buy, sell, or exchange virtual currencies. The company recently launched a desktop app to manage and use cryptocurrency without relying on online services and protocols. It is led by CEO Taylor Monahan and is based in Los Angeles, CA. MyCrypto raised $4M in funding to continue expanding its development efforts. Participating investors include Polychain Capital (lead), Boost VC Fund 3, ShapeShift, Mainframe’s Mick Hagen, Chance Du (Coefficient Ventures), Ausum Blockchain Fund, Albert Ni and Lily Liu (4T Global).