• Hyperbolic

  Participated · Seed · Aug 2024

  Hyperbolic builds a decentralized GPU marketplace and verifiable AI inference services aimed at developers and researchers who need affordable compute. Its platform is powered by Hyper-dOS and a proprietary Proof of Sampling (PoSP) protocol and it claims to process over 1 billion tokens daily for 30,000 Web2 users. The marketplace enables suppliers to monetize idle GPUs while offering renters cost savings of up to 75%. Customers include Hugging Face, Quora, and universities such as Stanford and NYU. Founded by Jasper Zhang, Ph.D., and Yuchen Jin, Ph.D., the company aims to bridge Web2 and Web3 and unify fragmented AI workflows. Hyperbolic plans to launch its own blockchain in 2025 to facilitate collective governance and will use recent funds to grow engineering and go-to-market teams and scale globally. Hyperbolic operates an open-access AI cloud platform that provides GPU resources and AI inference services to developers and researchers worldwide. The company is led by CEO Jasper (Yue) Zhang and is based in New York. It raised $7M in a seed funding round to advance development of its open-access AI cloud. Hyperbolic plans to use the proceeds to hire key engineers and build a supportive ecosystem for developers. Looking ahead, the company intends to launch its Proof of Sampling (PoSP) protocol on an interoperable blockchain to undergird a decentralized network of nodes. The raise positions Hyperbolic to accelerate product development and ecosystem growth.

• SoSoValue

  Led · Seed · Jun 2024

  SoSoValue offers an AI-driven investment research platform that helps retail investors sift through large amounts of data and surface meaningful insights via an intuitive dashboard. The platform leverages advanced AI algorithms to analyze data from multiple sources and presents findings accessible to investors regardless of background. The company said the latest funds will be used to expand teams across marketing, engineering and business development. SoSoValue also plans to bring additional products to market over the coming quarters. The $15M Series A closed at the end of December and is primarily earmarked as a reserve fund for the SoSoValue Indices (SSI) Protocol. The company is based in Singapore. SoSoValue is an AI-driven investment research platform that enables investors to access and analyze cryptocurrency information. It offers research tools, real-time analytics and a community for collaborative growth. The product suite includes a Bitcoin Spot ETF dashboard, an AI-powered news aggregator and a Crypto Sector Index. Led by Jiva Kwan and based in Singapore, the company attracted over 1.2 million organic users within five months of launch. SoSoValue raised $4.15M in Seed funding and intends to use the proceeds to expand operations and accelerate development efforts. The company is positioning itself to scale its product and user base in advanced financial markets with the new capital.

• BlockSec

  Participated · Seed · Jul 2022

  BlockSec is a blockchain security company founded in 2021 that provides a platform to enhance the security of decentralized applications by detecting high-impact blockchain vulnerabilities and blocking sophisticated attacks. Its core product is a real-time on-chain monitoring system that can intercept ongoing attacks and has rescued more than 5 million assets, including 3.8 million for the stablecoin DEX Saddle Finance. Since last year the company has provided security audit services to more than one hundred clients across both Solidity and Rust ecosystems. BlockSec also maintains public tools widely used by the blockchain security community, including a flash loan monitoring system and a transaction visualization system. The company closed an $8M Seed Plus funding round co-led by Vitalbridge Capital and Matrix Partners, with participation from Mirana Ventures, CoinSummer and YM Capital. It intends to use the funds to expand its research and production teams and to provide its on-chain monitoring and attack interception capabilities to more decentralized applications. BlockSec focuses on protecting blockchain ecosystem security across the full life cycle of smart contracts, blockchain regulation, new cyber crimes, and architecture security using privacy computing. The team has launched a multi‑chain smart‑contract trading online analysis platform, a lightning‑loan online detection platform, and an anti‑money‑laundering tracking platform. The platform has also integrated the Farcaster protocol. BlockSec says its products help projects improve security levels and facilitate blockchain supervision and governance. The company plans to use the newly raised capital to support team building and new product research and development. BlockSec was founded in May 2021.

• Kudo Labs

  Participated · Equity · Dec 2021

  Kudo Money builds Unomi identity passports, a decentralised scoring protocol that aggregates on-chain activity across Ethereum, Polygon, BSC and Solana to produce programmable scores (0–100) like Credit, Airdrop, Hodler and Power‑user. These passports let users batch wallets, sync multi‑chain activity, and enable protocols to profile users for rewards, undercollateralized lending, airdrops and improved UX. The company says scores will help DeFi protocols assess creditworthiness and allow addresses with higher reputation to access borrowing, airdrops and farming opportunities. Kudo is developing an ecosystem of Web3 products (including Unomi and Bitquity) aimed at mainstream crypto adoption. Financially, Kudo closed a $4 million strategic funding round to accelerate development of the passport ecosystem. The company plans to decentralise identity infrastructure by launching a native token, $KUDO, with a public sale planned for Q1 next year.

No current team members are available.