• Tritum

  Participated · Seed · May 2022

  Tritum develops trading, liquidity and exchange infrastructure for digital assets through its operating businesses Blocktane (a global crypto exchange) and Vesi (a high-frequency proprietary trader and liquidity provider). The company closed a $1.1M seed round in early 2022 and is a team of more than 10 people led by former electronic market-making and exchange leaders from Nasdaq, TMX, banks and HFTs. Blocktane has grown to over 250,000 users since launching its platform token BKT in June 2021 and is preparing a liquidity mining program to reward traders from a long-term BKT rewards pool. Blocktane recently integrated with Layerswap to enable direct withdrawals to Loopring and other Ethereum Layer-2 networks. Vesi connects to over 30 exchanges and provides market making on both order-book CEXs and DEXs, including contracted market-making services. Tritum plans to expand throughput and scale across its businesses and to launch products in data, insights, trading product issuance based on its indices and strategies, as well as offerings in credit, custody, web3 data and complex derivatives.

• Genius Yield

  Participated · Seed · Nov 2021

  Genius Yield builds an AI-powered asset management platform on the Cardano blockchain that algorithmically automates asset allocation to maximize APY while minimizing risk. Its first product, a decentralized exchange (DEX), was scheduled to launch in Q2 2022, followed by the main yield optimizer application in Q3 2022. The company raised over $4.2 million in a seed round and plans to direct the funds into product development. Genius Yield’s Smart Liquidity Management protocol targets superior yield optimization through algorithmic strategies. The roadmap includes the Genius Academy, a community-driven educational and mentorship platform for novice DeFi users. The founding team is distributed across Switzerland, Germany, and the USA and was among the first to develop a Cardano-powered yield optimizer.

• TotemFi

  Participated · Equity · Mar 2021

  TotemFi is a staking-based decentralized finance (DeFi) prediction protocol that offers individual and collective prediction markets on asset price movements and broader events. The platform combines high-yield staking pools with BTC and native token rewards to incentivize accurate forecasts. TotemFi completed a strategic sale as part of a wider fundraising plan and was incubated by DuckDAO. The project has a $777K fundraising cap that includes seed, private and public sale tranches. The team is led by CEO Jolyon Layard-Horsfall and CMO Harry Horsfall. TotemFi’s decentralized app (dApp) is scheduled to launch early in 2021.

No current team members are available.