Led · Seed · Feb 2026

Fair.xyz operates a blockchain platform designed to simplify and accelerate the minting, distribution, and overall management of digital assets. The company positions itself as an end-to-end solution for creators and brands seeking to launch and handle NFTs or other tokenized assets without deep technical expertise. According to the company, its technology aims to remove friction points around smart contract deployment and asset management on chain. With new capital in hand, Fair.xyz plans to enhance its platform’s capabilities, likely adding new features that improve user experience and scalability. The firm will also expand its team to support product development and customer acquisition. While specific revenue figures, user counts, or other operating metrics were not disclosed in the article, the fresh funding provides additional runway to pursue growth and product innovation.

Participated · Seed · Mar 2025

Pluralis Research develops open-source AI using a decentralized, model-parallel training approach it calls Protocol Learning. The approach leverages decentralized and collaborative training so models are never fully materialized and remain only within the protocol. That design is intended to facilitate programmatic value flow to training participants. The company plans to use the seed proceeds to expand operations and its development efforts. Pluralis Research was founded by CEO Alexander Long and is based in Melbourne, Australia.

Participated · Seed · Apr 2024

Ord.io announced a $2M pre-seed round in a LinkedIn post. The post names participating investors and backers but does not describe the company’s product, roadmap, or operating metrics. The announcement lists co‑lead investors and numerous participating funds and individuals. No financial metrics, revenue, user counts, or use-of-proceeds details were disclosed in the post. The LinkedIn post serves as the sole source for the company’s publicly shared fundraising information in the provided article. Additional context about Ord.io’s business model, team background, or future plans was not included in the article.

Participated · Seed · Mar 2024

OrdinalsBot builds infrastructure and developer tools for the Bitcoin Ordinals ecosystem, including an inscription tool, the Scribe on-chain blogging platform, and a premium API for analytics, collection management and marketplace integration. The team launched as the first automated inscription service in the Bitcoin Ordinals space and has expanded into features for collection mints, BRC-20 launches, lazy minting, and complex indexing such as parent-child hierarchies. OrdinalsBot plans to launch a Trio Marketplace to centralize Ordinals access and will ramp up hiring across functions with a focus on BTC developers. The company says the new capital will help reset dynamics and infrastructure within blockchain to bring new opportunities to the Ordinals and BTC ecosystem. Financially, OrdinalsBot completed an oversubscribed $3M+ seed round as a fast follow to a pre-seed raised less than five months earlier, bringing total funding to over $4.5M. The announcement was released from London. OrdinalsBot builds ordinals infrastructure and recently launched a Software Developer Kit (SDK) to help developers integrate ordinals functionality into their projects. The company says the SDK enables companies and individuals to store data on Bitcoin and serves as a building block for Web3. OrdinalsBot was founded in February 2023 by Brian Laughlan and Toby Lewis and is based in the UK. The startup raised more than $1 million in a Seed funding round to improve ordinals infrastructure. Founders stated the funding and investor support will help them become a premier Bitcoin infra company. The company emphasized renewed developer interest in the space as a catalyst for its plans.

Participated · Series A · Jun 2023

Gensyn operates a blockchain-based protocol that matches buyers and sellers of compute power and provides cryptographic verification to prove machine learning work was completed correctly. The platform is designed to harness large-scale, distributed compute networks in a way analogous to projects like SETI@home or Folding@home. The company argues that expensive access to cloud providers (AWS, Azure) is a bottleneck for AI development and aims to cut out intermediaries to sharply increase supply. By decentralising access to devices for training models, Gensyn expects a deflationary effect on the price of compute, enabling larger models and broader participation in model training. The team set out on this journey three years ago and is positioning the product as a means to expand computational access and “computational liberty.” Financially, Gensyn recently closed a $43 million Series A round, providing capital to further develop and expand the protocol. Gensyn is developing a decentralized compute network that applies a blockchain and token to verify and pay for deep-learning compute tasks performed on a distributed set of machines. The platform is designed to monetize unused compute capacity and to provide a lower-cost alternative to centralized cloud GPU/TPU providers. Gensyn plans to launch its network for training AI models, using on-chain verification to trigger payments via a token. The company says this approach offers environmental benefits by using otherwise idle compute and claims material cost savings versus traditional cloud services. Gensyn estimates its average price per standard NVIDIA GPU-hour can be up to 80% cheaper (about $0.45/hour versus roughly $2/hour on other cloud services). On the financial side, Gensyn has raised a $6.5M seed round and previously raised an unannounced $1.1M pre-seed in 2021.