Participated · Seed · Feb 2025

Elio offers an AI-powered eco-design software platform that integrates sustainability directly into the process design phase of manufacturing. The platform empowers scientists and process engineers to make informed, eco-conscious decisions early on, before production begins. By leveraging AI and large language models, Elio helps companies evaluate sustainable materials, packaging, and methods. The company was founded by Kami Krista and Kamil Mroczek and is based in Vienna, Austria. In February 2025 Elio raised €1.9M in a pre-seed funding round led by Ananda Impact Ventures. The round included participation from Stefan Oschmann, Andreas Treichl, Cerulean, Overview Capital, We\R, and RHEINEST/N&V Capital.

Participated · Series A · Apr 2024

Meridia, founded in 2015 and based in Amsterdam, develops tools for complex smallholder-heavy agri-commodity supply chains. Its flagship product, Verify, is a data verification platform accessible via a SaaS portal and API that identifies and rectifies erroneous, fraudulent, and non-compliant field data in real time. Verify supports procurement, sourcing, trade, and sustainability teams by improving evidence-based decision-making and helping companies comply with regulations such as the EU Deforestation Regulation and industry standards from the European Cocoa Association and European Coffee Federation. The platform leverages earth observation and verified datasets and is currently operational in 35 origin countries across commodities including cocoa, coffee, palm oil, soy, and rubber. Meridia partners with ICE Benchmark Administration through the ICE Commodity Traceability (ICE CoT) service and plans to extend Verify’s application to new commodities and sectors. The company completed a €5.2M Series A to accelerate expansion of Verify; the new portal enters beta for existing customers on July 1, 2024 with a full commercial launch scheduled for September 2024. Landmapp, established in 2015 by Simon Ulvund and Thomas Vaassen, offers a mobile platform that provides smallholder farmer families with documentation of their land. The company operates a field-based team of surveyors who use handheld GPS devices to map each farmer’s plot, verify the farmer’s identity, validate land claims with neighbours, submit claims to authorities for legalization, and deliver a final land certificate. Landmapp has sold more than 2,000 documents to smallholder cocoa farmers in Ghana. It received an investment of undisclosed amount from Omidyar Network alongside existing investor HERi Africa. The company intends to use the funds to grow its customer base in Ghana and to expand into other countries following this rollout. The article does not disclose revenue or other financial metrics beyond the investment.

Participated · Seed · Nov 2022

Thallo operates a flagship blockchain carbon exchange designed to connect buyers and high-quality project developers directly, aiming to make the voluntary carbon market more efficient, traceable and democratic. The company uses tokenization and web3 tooling to enable buying, selling and retiring of credits with full transparency, and is developing the world’s first two-way carbon bridge with BioCarbon Registry to move credits on and off the blockchain. Thallo plans to accelerate development and marketing of its marketplace following an oversubscribed seed raise. The team combines climate‑tech and blockchain expertise (including co‑founders Ryan Gledhill, Joe Hargreaves and Adam Dry) and includes Hayley Moller leading marketing; the company has ten full‑time staff. Thallo has formed technical and ecosystem partnerships with Ripple, Celo, Polygon and Chainlink and works with project developers such as Biofix, InPlanet, TrendCO2e, UNDO and Ventree Innovations.

Participated · Seed · Aug 2022

dWallet Labs builds SingleWallet, an interface to interact with dynamic, decentralized wallets (dWallets) on the Odsy Network. A dWallet is described as a signing mechanism paired to a public key and constrained by dynamic access control that can sign transactions on blockchains using common signing algorithms (e.g., ECDSA, EdDSA). The company positions SingleWallet and dWallets as a secure, programmable, decentralized access layer to all of web3. dWallet Labs is led by Founder and CEO Omer Sadika. The company plans to use the new funding to build protocols and projects on top of the Odsy Network. The Odsy Network was founded by Omer Sadika, David Lachmish, Sean Lee and Yehonatan Cohen Scaly, with a Zug, Switzerland-based Odsy Foundation supporting the wider ecosystem.

Participated · Seed · Aug 2022

StrideCosmos is a liquid staking protocol that provides liquid staking support services for the Cosmos Hub. Its core product issues stATOM tokens to participants who can use them across the Cosmos ecosystem or sell them immediately to obtain liquidity. The protocol enables users to maintain staking exposure while preserving token liquidity. The company announced it completed a $4 million strategic financing. The round was disclosed in a statement on X. No operating metrics or additional financial details were provided in the article. Stride is the first feature-complete liquid staking zone in the Cosmos ecosystem, offering a multichain liquid staking protocol and a vertically integrated app UX that enables staking across IBC-compatible blockchains. Users who stake with Stride receive stTokens that earn auto-compounding staking rewards and can be used in DeFi or sold for instant liquidity. The protocol currently supports Cosmos Hub (stATOM) and plans to add a wide slate of IBC-compatible assets by year-end, including Juno (stJUNO), Secret (stSCRT), Osmosis (stOSMO), Kava (stKAVA) and others. Stride emphasizes safety and security, is audited by Certik and Oak Security, already offers redemptions to mitigate liquid-staking depeg risk, and plans additional measures such as rate-limiting. Founded in March 2022 and led by Vishal Talasani, Riley Edmunds, and Aidan Salzmann, the team is working closely with top validators and pursuing integrations with Cosmos DeFi platforms. The company raised US$6.7M in seed funding and will use proceeds to recruit technical and non-technical talent, enhance product offerings, and grow both the Stride and Cosmos ecosystems.