Participated · Series A · May 2025

Dinari offers dShares, fully backed, tokenized representations of individual U.S. stocks and ETFs accessible via a single, developer-friendly API that lets fintechs, neobanks, and digital wealth platforms offer real U.S. equities without building new infrastructure. Its platform supports 100+ listed stocks and ETFs (including SPY, TSLA, AAPL, NVDA, META, GOOGL) and includes built-in compliance with programmable restrictions and real-time settlement logic. The company operates SEC-registered infrastructure and holds Registered Transfer Agent status. Dinari is already live in 60+ countries across LATAM, MENA, Southeast Asia and beyond. The startup plans to expand its tokenized asset offerings, deepen integrations with institutional partners, and scale infrastructure to meet increased global demand. The team includes CEO Gabriel Otte, Matthew Eisner, and Brandon Ooi. Dinari offers Dinari Securities‑Backed Tokens (dShares), tokenized, on‑chain representations of US public equities. Its dShares are backed 1:1 by the underlying assets and subject to regular audits of smart contracts and reserves. The company recently launched three new dShares on the Arbitrum One blockchain — MCD.d, YUM.d, and WGMI.d — which complement its existing 17 dShares. Dinari says its products are intended to open access and improve the efficiency of digital transactions and investments for developers and users. Financially, Dinari secured $10 million in seed funding, recently adding about $2.5 million to its previous total. The company states the capital will help build new products and distribute them to developers and users. Dinari operates dShare, a blockchain-powered platform that tokenizes publicly traded corporate equity securities to enable exposure for users outside the U.S. The dShare platform offers transparent blockchain transactions, immutable proof of ownership, crypto-wallet transactions, composability with other blockchain products, and instant settlement. Dinari programs tokens to be 1:1 backed by the matching underlying securities and provides public access to trades and total vault holdings per asset to promote transparency. The company raised $7.5M in seed funding to support product expansion and international launch efforts. Dinari became a registered SEC transfer agent in 2022 and is pursuing additional licenses to broaden its offering. The funds will be used to launch dShare outside the U.S. and expand the company’s product suite.

Led · Series A · Apr 2024

Homium is a Los Angeles, CA–based home equity mortgage lender and provider of a securitization platform. It uses patented technology to monetize and securitize owner-occupied home equity at scale, leveraging capital markets through a product the company says puts homeowners’ interests first. Homium enables homeowners to take out an on-title second mortgage in the form of a shared appreciation mortgage loan, which it pools with other loans into an investment vehicle to offer a tokenized security to investors. The company has its first loans live in Colorado and aims to expand the platform to several other states. Homium raised $10M in a Series A led by Sorenson Impact Group and Blizzard, the Avalanche Ecosystem Fund, and intends to use the funds to expand operations and development efforts.

Participated · Equity · Jan 2024

Umoja is advancing what it calls DeFi’s first asset risk management primitive, enabling anyone to insure market losses similar to hedge funds. The product aims to permit decentralized hedging of a wide range of asset risks—from crypto and fiat to digital bonds, real estate, and commodities. The company frames the opportunity as addressing up to a $500 trillion market. Umoja was founded by Robby Greenfield, the former Head of Social Impact at ConsenSys, and is based in Atlanta, GA. The company says it will use the raised funds to continue expanding its development efforts. Financially, the company announced a $2M funding round led by a group of blockchain and crypto investors.

Led · Seed · Nov 2023

Trips is a first-of-its-kind platform that enables content creators to establish their copyright's initial digital provenance on-chain and to turn copyrights into financial assets. The product allows creators to authenticate themselves, link content platforms, stamp copyright ownership on the blockchain (what the company calls TCIs), and enable monetization opportunities through a single interface. Trips is launching on the Avalanche Evergreen Subnet to leverage the network’s customizability for permissioning, privacy, and other requirements. The company currently supports YouTube and plans to add more platforms in the near future. Trips has raised $2.5M in pre-seed funding led by Shima Capital with participation from Animal Capital, Blackwood Ventures, Serafund, Calligraphy Digital, Blizzard and the Avalanche Ecosystem Fund. CEO and Founder Michael Finkelstein frames the product as providing creators access to capital, protecting against unauthorized derivative uses, and future-proofing creative ownership.

Led · Seed · Sep 2023

Movement Labs is a San Francisco-based blockchain development team that combines modular elements to create a more secure and performant Ethereum ecosystem. The company is building Movement Zero-Knowledge Layer 2, a parallelized execution environment that targets 30,000+ transactions per second while using Ethereum for settlement. Movement’s Move-EVM uses a fully EVM-compatible bytecode interpreter to enable Move and Solidity developers to deploy code that is fully verified at runtime, preventing attack vectors like reentrancy. The team calls this an "Integrated Approach," combining shared sequencing, embedded formal verification provers, alternative data availability, and Ethereum settlement to enhance security and performance. Movement Labs will also introduce Move Stack, an execution layer framework compatible with rollup frameworks from Optimism, Polygon, and Arbitrum. The company raised $38M in Series A funding to bring Facebook’s Move Virtual Machine to Ethereum and further develop its stack. Movement Labs develops tooling and infrastructure around the Move smart contract language, including the Movement SDK that aims to deliver secure, high-performance Move environments to existing blockchain networks. Its first major SDK tool, M1, is a modular, horizontally scalable, and vertically composable blockchain that bootstraps ecosystem, liquidity, validator set, and EVM tooling by living within the Avalanche consensus. M1 is built on the Avalanche Subnet stack and is described as community-first, with transparent tokenomics and low staking requirements to encourage decentralization. The company emphasizes native protections in Move against common attack vectors like reentrancy and seeks to let developers use alternative virtual machines without extensive bridging or multiple wallets. Movement Labs plans to grow adoption and development of Move through its SDK and blockchain offerings. The company recently raised funding to support these product and adoption efforts.