Participated · Seed · Jun 2026

Orthogonal is a YC-backed unified API platform where AI agents and developers can discover and pay for best-in-class APIs through a single key, with usage-based pricing where you pay only for what you call. The catalog spans go-to-market, investors, marketing, and recruiting use cases, and providers can list an API once to make it instantly discoverable by every AI agent and developer on the platform, getting paid per request.

Led · Seed · Feb 2026

Giant operates an interactive storytelling platform that lets kids become cartoon characters, star in personalized shows, and build their own digital worlds. The product offers three adaptive experiences—Create, Watch, and Talk—allowing children to design episodes, appear in customized content using their own name and voice, and hold conversations with responsive characters. Led by CEO John Kobs, the San Francisco-based company positions its technology as a way to shift screen time from passive consumption to active engagement. While no user or revenue metrics were disclosed, Giant recently secured outside capital to accelerate development. The company plans to direct the new funds toward scaling operations and expanding its product features. Future initiatives are expected to deepen personalization and broaden the platform’s creative toolkit for young users.

Led · Series A · Feb 2026

Opinion operates a decentralized prediction-market exchange in which all trades and settlements occur entirely on-chain, positioning itself as a non-custodial alternative to centralized betting and derivatives venues. The product experience is closest to Polymarket, allowing users to speculate on macroeconomic and regional events. Since launching key market categories in October, the platform has expanded rapidly and now holds approximately $130 million in open interest across its markets. This growth underscores rising user engagement and liquidity within the protocol. Opinion’s business model centers on transaction fees generated from trading activity and liquidity provision. Proceeds from its recent capital raise will be used to deepen market liquidity, expand event categories, and enhance the underlying smart-contract infrastructure. The company’s near-term roadmap also includes scaling user acquisition and reinforcing its compliance and oracle systems.

Led · Equity · Dec 2025

TestMachine is building Predator, an artificial-intelligence security engine that scans centralized and decentralized exchanges—including Coinbase—to detect malicious activity across more than one million crypto tokens. The platform delivers real-time monitoring and has reportedly flagged every rug-pull event, totaling US$12 million, within a sample of 11,000 tokens. By combining AI models with blockchain data, Predator aims to provide early-warning signals and actionable insights to traders, exchanges, and other ecosystem participants. The fresh capital will allow TestMachine to scale global coverage and further enhance the platform’s detection capabilities. Future plans include deeper exchange integrations and broader token coverage as the company positions itself as a standard layer of security for on-chain assets. The recent US$6.5 million raise is the company’s first publicly disclosed round, providing the financial runway to accelerate product development and international expansion.

Participated · Seed · Aug 2024

Assisterr provides a Solana-native, no-code platform for creating, deploying, and monetising specialised AI agents, focusing on Small Language Models (SLMs) rather than large general-purpose LLMs. The company argues SLMs are cheaper to run, easier to customise, and better suited for task-specific applications across DeFi, NFTs, and other Web3 use cases. Assisterr is building a decentralised AI (DeAI) economy around an upcoming $ASRR token to reward contributions such as model building, data validation, and successful agent deployments. The platform reports 4.7 million users in under nine months and more than 24,000 live AI agents deployed by its community. Early monetisation tests generated $160,000 in revenue within the first weeks, and several tokenised agents have reached a combined fully diluted valuation of over €70.4 million. The company positions itself as enabling creator-owned AI, shifting control away from centralised APIs and big-tech pricing models toward a Web3 creator economy. Assisterr is a Cambridge, UK-based AI infrastructure startup building a network of community-owned small language models (SLMs). Led by CEO and co-founder Nick Havryliak, the company provides an end-to-end infrastructure and a data provenance protocol for launching and maintaining community-owned SLMs. Since launch it has attracted about 150,000 registered users and has launched more than 60 SLMs curated for Web3 protocols such as Solana, Optimism, 0g.ai, and NEAR. The company plans to use the £1.3M Pre-Seed to accelerate protocol development, form strategic partnerships, and launch an incentive program to grow its model-builder and data-contributor ecosystem. Assisterr was selected for Google’s AI Startups program, securing $350k to support GPU, CPU, and cloud infrastructure needs. Backers include a mix of venture firms and angels, and the funds aim to strengthen Assisterr’s infrastructure and ecosystem growth.