Participated · Seed · Feb 2026

Era is building infrastructure for the emerging world of agent-driven shopping, where AI assistants surface, evaluate and even purchase products on behalf of consumers. The SaaS platform syncs two-ways with merchants’ PIMs/ERPs, analyses SKU-level visibility inside large-language-model answers, and recommends automated content changes to improve ranking in conversational commerce channels. It already plugs into major e-commerce suites such as Shopify, WooCommerce, Magento, BigCommerce and Wix, and is connected to key AI discovery surfaces including ChatGPT, Google AI Mode, Gemini, Claude and Perplexity. Current go-to-market efforts are running pilot programmes with an initial cohort of brands, while upcoming priorities include expanding to enterprise accounts, scaling the data infrastructure and adding new AI platforms. The founding team, repeat YC alumni Oleksii Sidorov (CEO) and Sergey Drozdkov (CTO), previously built and exited multiple AI and e-commerce ventures, giving them deep domain experience. Although revenue figures were not disclosed, Suggestr, an earlier effort by the team, generated over $500k in incremental sales for customers, illustrating their commercial track record. Era positions itself as indispensable middleware for brands that risk invisibility if their product metadata is not machine-legible to AI agents.

Participated · Equity · May 2024

Lava Foundation is building a modular blockchain network and is currently operating in a testnet phase. The project runs a Magma program that rewards users with points. The foundation completed an $11M financing to support development. Participating backers include Animoca Brands, Gate.io Ventures, CoinGecko Ventures, Polygon co‑founder Sandeep Nailwal, Ash Crypto, CryptoLark, Crypto Times Japan, Le Journal Du Coin and The Rollup. Lava plans a mainnet launch and a token airdrop in the first half of 2024. The funding is positioned to help advance the network toward that launch and user incentives.

Participated · Seed · Jan 2024

Entangle develops a customizable cross-chain interoperability and data infrastructure that provides universal and verifiable data to smart contracts and Entangle-native decentralized applications. Its core product includes a modular blockchain hub for initiating and executing smart contract operations, with the ability for builders to design bespoke systems for processing and executing cross-chain operations. The infrastructure offers customizable consensus mechanisms and configurable off-chain entities for on/off-chain data collection and validation, and is described as designed with institutional needs in mind. Entangle highlights support for a wide array of Web3 applications, including RWA, Metaverse, NFT, DeFi, SocialFi, Gaming, and BRC-20. The company says the product enables integration of customised keeper data aggregation and validation processes and emphasizes a trustless architecture for security. Entangle also references partnerships via its Dapp Liquid Vaults and ongoing integrations with decentralized exchanges, money market and options protocols.