Participated · Seed · Mar 2023

Aspecta’s core product is an AI-powered identity platform that uses large language models to review contributors’ code, combines social endorsement and network analysis, and incorporates on-chain wallet interactions to tag developer activity. The platform is integrated with GitHub and pulls data from Google, StackOverflow and MetaMask, with Twitter onboarding in progress. Its flagship product, Aspecta ID, will present automatically generated identity pages and is positioned as both a developer-facing profile tool and an "identity-as-a-service" for organizations such as hackathons and hiring teams. Aspecta’s alpha waitlist has grown to about 130,000 people, a traction signal investors cited when backing the company. The startup plans to expand its algorithms to content creators—evaluating tweet and video popularity and using graph-learning to detect fake engagement—and aims to eventually govern parts of the ecosystem via a DAO (not yet implemented). Aspecta.ai is a Yale student–founded startup incubated at Tsai CITY that aims to build a next-generation talent engine to empower recruiting in the cloud era. The company raised about $2 million in its latest fundraising round. Led by founder Zongjian (Jack) He (Yale GSAS ’22), Aspecta assembled a team of AI scientists to integrate big web talent data. Its recruiting modules analyze millions of coding projects, tech posts, patents, and papers to map proficiency across more than 2,000 skills. Aspecta offers a one-stop “Team Building, Task Management, Task Evaluation” intelligent workspace for tech companies, research institutions, and HR tech firms. The firm is also leading a Talent DAO that brings together Web 3.0 hackers, builders, protocols, bootcamps, and VCs.

Participated · Seed · Sep 2022

TwitterScan builds a decentralized social identification (DID) platform and a .NFT DID ecosystem for Web3 social infrastructure. The company is developing a social platform and DID tools intended to enable identity and social features across Web3 applications. It has established strategic partnerships with blockchain wallet providers including Token Pocket, BitKeep, KuCoin Wallet, OKX Wallet, ViaWallet and iToken Wallet. TwitterScan says it is supported by numerous top-tier crypto exchanges and will collaborate with social infrastructure projects to integrate DID functionality. The company intends to use the new funding to accelerate development of its DID ecosystem and expand its social platform initiatives. TwitterScan was founded by MetaScan Labs and is based in New York City.

Participated · Equity · Jun 2022

Project Twelve (P12) is a remote Web3 gaming platform and game-creator ecosystem built around a sustainable in‑game economy. Its core products include the Editor, a Metaverse content engine for building game worlds; the Infra, a set of APIs/SDKs and developer portals for bridging game content on‑chain; and the Econs, economic and governmental rules implemented in EVM smart contracts. The company closed an $8M funding round and intends to use the proceeds to expand operations, broaden its business reach, and accelerate development efforts. P12 recently launched a Genesis Soul‑Bound NFT airdrop on June 27 that captures off‑chain credentials such as games published and hours played. That Soul‑Bound NFT is intended to entitle holders to future rights and benefits and to onboard gamers into the P12 ecosystem via a referral program. The airdrop was reported to have been met with strong enthusiasm from the gaming community.

Participated · Seed · May 2022

Particle Network is a modular chain-abstraction Layer-1 blockchain project. The team is preparing a testnet second phase expected to start this week and plans a mainnet launch in Q3, with its PARTI token launching alongside mainnet. The company currently has just over 30 employees and intends to expand to more than 40, hiring engineering and operations staff. It completed a $15M Series A financing structured as a SAFT (simple agreement for future tokens). Proceeds will be used to scale the team and support the network launches. Particle Network offers a mobile app data and development platform for Web3 that provides scalable, decentralized backends and data infrastructure for developers. Its full-stack Web3 infrastructure aims to enable developers to execute projects from idea to deployment in a single workflow for high-performance dApps. Developers can integrate Particle Network via APIs and implement functions by setting parameters and front-end designs. The company said it will use the new capital to expand operations and its development efforts. Financially, Particle Network raised $7M in the current funding round and previously raised $1.8M in a pre-seed round in April 2022. The company is based in Singapore. Particle Network provides a fully managed backend infrastructure and development toolkit for building, hosting, and scaling Web3 mobile gaming dApps. The platform supports multiple chains including Solana, BNB Chain, Polygon, Immutable X, Avalanche, Flow, Evmos and Wax. It helps developers clean and structuralize on-chain data and connect processed data with first-party client data to build user DIDs and enable targeted product iterations and operations. Developers have already built games on the platform, such as Merge Go, Designer 777, Idle Weed Inc and Panda^2. The company raised a $1.5M pre-seed funding round to accelerate growth. Particle Network plans to use the funds to grow its team, nurture a global developer community, and polish its launchpad to give developers the fastest path from idea to mass-scaling Web3 games.