Brinc
7F Floor Block A PMQ, 35 Aberdeen St, Central, Central and Western District, Hong Kong
Overview
Headquartered in Hong Kong, Brinc is a leader in global venture acceleration and operates 15 multidisciplinary accelerator programs across seven countries. Brinc accelerates startups focused on blockchain technology, artificial intelligence, connected hardware, robotics, climate tech, clean energy, food technology, and Internet of Things (IoT) with a view to creating a more sustainable, equitable, and inclusive future. Brinc also supports corporations with distributed innovation strategies, sourcing of new startups and technologies, as well as venture-building Web3-enabled businesses. Global corporations (Manulife, Huawei, Schneider Electric, Puma, Batelco, Merck, Omantel, Linrun Group, Zhihui Park), government organizations (Hong Kong Science Park, NEOM, MBRIF, Guangdong Soft-tech Park), tertiary institutions (HK City University, National University of Singapore), fast-growing companies (Animoca Brands, DayDayCook), and leading venture funds (Artesian, LeverVC, Tamkeen, EDB) have all run programs with Brinc. In 2021, Brinc announced a series of venture funds to invest in high-potential early-stage companies through accelerators and provide LPs with a dedicated innovation platform and access to Series A+ co-investment opportunities.
- Total investments
- 8
- Lead investments
- 1
- Investments · 12mo
- 2
- Active investors
- 8
Sector focus
- Agriculture
- Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Blockchain
- Clean Energy
- Food and Beverage
- Gaming
- Health Care
- Nutrition
Investment portfolio
- ChimpX
Participated · Seed · Apr 2026
ChimpX’s core product is Mojo, an AI agent that interprets natural-language user intent, composes strategies, routes transactions, and executes on-chain across DeFi protocols while abstracting gas fees. The platform supports trading, lending, borrowing, bridging, and derivatives under a single AI-driven interface and currently operates on BNB Chain with a Solana launch planned for Q2 2026. ChimpX reports organic adoption metrics including 56,000+ unique wallets connected, $3.9M+ in transaction volume, 100,000+ AI prompts executed, and 15,000+ active users. Future product plans include natural-language strategy composition, advanced order automation, risk-aware execution, on-chain intelligence signals, and agent-to-agent transactions. The company also plans a $CHIMP token to enable fee participation, staking, and governance, and implements verifiable on-chain agent identity, auditability, user controls, and guardrails for trust and safety.
- Swarm Network
Participated · Equity · Aug 2025
Swarm Network operates a decentralized AI verification protocol anchored by tradable Agent Licenses (issued as NFTs) that let holders run and earn rewards for operating verification agents. Its Agent Layer incentivizes operators to verify data off‑chain and post trustworthy results on‑chain, creating an infrastructure for trustless verification. The project has sold over 10,000 Agent Licenses and is preparing an Agent BUIDL feature to let license holders customize and train their own agents for specific verification tasks. Swarm already has real‑world adoption through Rollup News, where more than 128,000 users have verified over three million posts, demonstrating practical demand for decentralized fact‑checking. The team emphasizes collaboration and transparency through tokenized incentives and aims to expand the network’s verification coverage and tooling. Recent strategic support and community sales provide capital to accelerate feature rollouts and ecosystem growth. Swarm Network is a decentralized platform that enables collaboration among multiple AI agents and is based in Road Town, British Virgin Islands. Its core product is a multi-agent collaboration framework that lets individuals own, manage, and monetize AI agents, turning them into dynamic swarms. These swarms validate real-time data, anchor it on-chain, and power applications across the Web3 ecosystem. The platform's flagship initiative, the Truth Protocol, supports large-scale AI-agent swarms and enables applications such as RollUp News to tag and verify information in real time. Swarm Network raised $3M in Seed funding led by ZeroStage and Y2Z Ventures with support from a syndicate of private investors. The company intends to use the funds to scale operations and accelerate development of its decentralized AI infrastructure.
- OpenPad AI
Participated · Equity · Dec 2024
OpenPad AI provides a platform that harnesses decentralized AI analytics combined with blockchain to improve investment decision-making and data management. The product offers personalized investment strategies, project scoring and real-time market insights while enabling users to retain control of their data. The company emphasizes privacy, data ownership and decentralized control as core design principles. OpenPad AI plans to use new funding to expand its AI-powered tools and scale operations. The article does not disclose revenue, users, or other financial metrics beyond the recent fundraise.
- IDA
Participated · Seed · Sep 2024
IDA is a Hong Kong-based digital asset technology company co-founded by CEO Lawrence Chu and CSO Sean Lee. Its first product is HKDA, a fiat-referenced stablecoin built on public blockchain protocols and designed to be regulated in Hong Kong. HKDA is intended to enable 24/7/365 commerce and payments between Hong Kong and global markets. IDA is partnering with industry players to facilitate minting, redemption, and widespread acceptance of HKDA as a payment and settlement digital currency. In subsequent phases the company plans to launch products denominated in other USD-pegged currencies with ecosystem partners across regulated financial institutions and Web3 platforms. Financially, IDA raised USD6M in a seed round to advance development and launch of HKDA.
- Altris.AI
Participated · Equity · Dec 2022
Altris AI develops an AI platform that assists eye care professionals in detecting more than 100 pathologies, including age-related macular degeneration, glaucoma, and choroidal nevus. The company offers a medical image management platform and a free educational mobile app for clinicians. Its platform is already installed in more than 30 clinics, and its mobile app is used by over 11,000 ophthalmologists and optometrists. Altris AI partners with global OCT distributors and equipment manufacturers such as Topcon Healthcare, Optopol, and Huvitz. The company plans to use newly raised funds to scale its AI-enabled eye care diagnostics solution. Altris AI is headquartered in the USA with R&D centers in Kyiv, Ukraine and Malaga, Spain, and is led by founder and CEO Andrey Kuropyatnyk.