Participated · Seed · Jan 2026

Moto Finance Inc. is building a Visa Infinite credit card and companion savings account that run on blockchain infrastructure, allowing users to deposit funds, earn interest through insured DeFi mechanisms, and settle card balances at the end of each billing cycle. Cardholders receive cashback, interest on deposits, and bundled lifestyle benefits such as Spotify Premium, YouTube Premium, Netflix, Financial Times, concierge services, and airport-lounge access. Founded by Shimon Newman and Ramses Kamanda, the company positions itself as a one-stop hub for both everyday spending and wealth management. The New York–based startup plans to differentiate through stable yield generation and an integrated suite of premium rewards typically reserved for high-end cards. Moto intends to embed traditional compliance and regulatory safeguards while leveraging decentralized protocols for yield. To date, the firm has secured $1.8 million in external capital, providing its initial financial runway. The fresh funds will support product development, regulatory infrastructure, and the platform’s initial rollout.

Participated · Seed · Oct 2025

Temple Digital Group is developing an institutional-grade trading stack that combines traditional electronic market features—such as automated order routing, all-to-all liquidity and post-trade reporting—with blockchain innovations like instant settlement, non-custodial wallets and tokenization. Built on the privacy-preserving Canton Network, the platform is designed to offer 24/7 compliant markets that integrate seamlessly with the broader digital-asset economy. The company is led by CEO Evan Varsamis and CSO Dan Simerman, who bring deep experience in trading systems and decentralized networks. With its recent seed financing, Temple plans to extend support to additional asset classes, financial instruments and cross-chain integrations. Canton Network already processes trillions in monthly volume for partners such as Goldman Sachs and BNP Paribas, giving Temple a robust institutional foundation. Financially, Temple has raised $5 million to date, and no revenue or user figures have been disclosed. Headquartered in New York, the startup positions itself as a core trading engine for institutions entering digital asset markets.

Participated · Seed · Jan 2025

Rena Labs is building the first TEE (Trusted Execution Environment) abstraction middleware to enable verifiable on-chain AI and support secure, privacy-preserving AI apps. Its core product, branded TrustEE, provides an abstraction stack intended to make AI systems auditable and trustless for developers and end users. Targeted high-impact applications include a Market-Making Integrity Dashboard, Private Order Execution for DEXs, fully autonomous AI agents for on-chain gaming, and private data sales in DePIN. The company says its initiatives span multimodal LLMs, autonomous agents, DeFi protocols, and social and gaming applications. Rena Labs plans to use newly raised capital to accelerate TrustEE development, expand its team with top developers and experts, and foster user education and community engagement. Its core team includes Princeton and MIT PhDs. Financially, the company closed a $3.3 million pre-seed round to fund these efforts.

Participated · Seed · Apr 2024

Camp Network is a modular Layer 2 blockchain service provider. It aims to bridge the gap between traditional systems and new digital realms. The company offers modular Layer 2 blockchain services to connect traditional and digital environments. Camp Network completed a $4 million seed financing led by Maven 11. Other participants in the round included OKX, Protagonist, Inception Capital, Paper Ventures, HTX, Moonrock Capital, and Eterna Capital. The fundraise was reported on April 3, 2024.

Participated · Equity · Oct 2023

STIX operates an OTC secondaries platform designed to create a trusted, private, and compliant marketplace for pre-launch and illiquid digital assets. The platform emphasizes data-driven price discovery, improved liquidity, and reduced counterparty risk through an auction system and professional marketplace features. STIX plans to launch its online marketplace in Q4 2023 and to release a suite of proprietary risk-management and portfolio-analytics tools. The team, founded in Q2 2023, is drawn from institutions including PIMCO, Morgan Stanley, Franklin Templeton, and Wintermute and has experience providing customised liquidity solutions such as GP-led secondaries and continuation vehicles. Since founding, STIX has been actively involved with many leading digital-asset projects including EigenLayer, Celestia, zkSync, Sui, Scroll, Fuel, LayerZero, and Animoca. The company raised $2.7 million in a recent fundraising round to support product development and market rollout.