• Darkbright Studios

  Participated · Seed · Oct 2024

  Darkbright Studios is building next-generation accessible midcore games, beginning with Smolbound, a life-sim RPG that blends cozy simulation, hero-collection RPG elements, and robust UGC. The studio emphasizes extensive live ops and a player-driven creation economy enabled by seamless web3 integration and on-chain content ownership. Smolbound’s IP stems from Smol Brains (a CC0 community-created IP) and will launch on the Treasure Layer-2 blockchain in 2025, with closed playtests underway in 2024. The team was incubated by Treasure DAO and is composed of industry veterans from PopCap, ArenaNet, Phoenix Labs, Big Fish Games, and Bain & Co, whose prior titles have generated over $3 billion in game revenues. Darkbright reports strong early traction for Smolbound, including 1.8+ million trailer views, 200K+ email signups, and 70K+ Discord users within a month of the trailer launch. The studio plans to leverage its community-rooted IP, live service expertise, and web3 foundations to scale the game and its UGC ecosystem.

• Range Labs

  Participated · Seed · Mar 2024

  Range Labs offers a single real-time platform that unifies wallets, custodians, bank accounts, and exchanges while providing risk and compliance controls that screen transactions before money moves. The company positions its product as closing the gap between instant stablecoin settlement and slower, business-day treasury and compliance logic. Range reports protecting over $30B in assets under management and tracking 99.41% of stablecoin payments across 200+ networks, supported by more than 10,000 integrations with banks, custodians, and wallets. The newly raised Series A will be used to advance the financial control layer for companies operating across stablecoin, digital asset, and fiat rails. Range has attracted both fintech and crypto venture investors to support its growth.

• Interface

  Participated · Seed · Aug 2023

  Interface builds a mobile companion that consolidates users' entire on-chain presence and organizes transactions into a human-friendly feed. The product emphasizes discovery and distribution, enabling creators to surface on-chain work and users to explore relevant content, communities, and events. Development began in February 2022 after a 50 ETH (~$150K) crowdfunding campaign that attracted contributors including Patricio Worthalter, Anton Bukov, and Mask Network. The company is based in Portugal and serves a global user base. Interface recently closed a $1.4 million seed round to fund product enhancements, expand into new use cases and industry niches, and lower onboarding friction to create a more engaging social experience for crypto users.

• Ondefy

  Participated · Equity · Jan 2023

  Ondefy is a Swiss startup founded in 2021 by Gauthier Vila that builds tools to make DeFi accessible to retail users. Its core product set includes a Fiat-to-any-token feature that enables onboarding to any token via a single URL, email and credit card in three steps, and a DeFi Marketplace meta-aggregator that abstracts on-chain complexity. The marketplace lets users view purchased assets, discover tokens, generate yield, and swap at the best rate using a Meta DEX aggregator. The company is headquartered in Lausanne and employs six people. Ondefy raised $1 million from a group of venture firms and ecosystem participants to support product development and team growth. Planned roadmap items include adding new chains to the fiat-onramp feature, improving user experience, and partnering with projects so their communities can access tokens with fiat.

• SerMorpheus

  Participated · Seed · Sep 2022

  SerMorpheus offers a user-friendly platform for businesses to create, mint and sell NFTs while allowing end users to buy and trade digital assets using rupiah. The platform has been used by about 27,000 people to claim tickets, access exclusive fan perks, and obtain memberships, and the company has manually onboarded 25 businesses including Indonesia Comic-Con. SerMorpheus takes a 5–10% cut on NFTs minted on its platform and charges a 2% fee on secondary sales. The startup has a team of roughly 30 people and plans to spend the new capital on building out infrastructure and hiring across all functions. Its product roadmap focuses on automating onboarding to make creation as simple as a Facebook page and standardizing smart contracts and the types of benefits creators provide to end users.

No current team members are available.