• Sentient

  Participated · Seed · Jul 2026

  Sentient develops a decentralized AI infrastructure called GRID that connects more than 100 models, data sources and reasoning agents to enable compositional multi-model responses. Built products include Dobby (a family of open-source LLMs tuned for community-aligned values), Sentient Chat (an agent-aggregation interface) and Open Deep Search, which the team says outperformed closed alternatives on the FRAMES benchmark. The project issues the SENT token for staking, governance, service payments and contributor rewards to coordinate a distributed community of developers, data providers and infrastructure operators. Sentient was founded in January 2024 by Sandeep Nailwal, Pramod Viswanath and Himanshu Tyagi and has secured an $85M seed round plus a $42M grants/investment program for open AGI research, bringing total committed capital above $125M. The team emphasizes keeping advanced models and agents openly available and auditable rather than proprietary. Following a listing of SENT on a major exchange, the token jumped about 20% on July 9, 2026, an event the coverage characterizes as liquidity-driven and highlights execution and adoption risk as key determinants of long-term value.

• Drift

  Participated · Series B · Sep 2024

  Founded in 2021, Drift is a decentralized derivatives exchange on Solana that offers perpetual futures, spot trading, lending, borrowing and cross-margin trading. It has more than 175,000 users and roughly $150 billion in cumulative trading volume. On April 1 the protocol was exploited for more than $270 million after attackers infiltrated the project, prompting substantial user losses and a roughly 70% drop in the DRIFT governance token. In response, Drift agreed to transition its settlement layer from Circle’s USDC to Tether’s USDT and to relaunch as a USDT-based perpetuals DEX on Solana. The company is pursuing recovery of user funds and platform reboot supported by the Tether-led funding package that includes revenue-linked repayments, grants, and liquidity support for market makers.

• Huma

  Participated · Equity · Sep 2024

  Huma is a Cupertino, CA-based provider of a PayFi network that finances global payments by providing instant access to liquidity. Led by CEO Kazım Rıfat Özyılmaz, the company offers on-demand payment financing across payment-focused chains. Huma plans to use the $38M funding to expand its PayFi network to Stellar’s Soroban and to Solana in the coming months, making the network accessible from all major payment-focused chains. The company intends to launch the Huma Foundation this year to decentralize the PayFi network and broaden global access. In April Huma merged with Arf, combining two PayFi/on-demand liquidity players. Huma and Arf have already surpassed $1.8 billion in payment financing transactions and are on track to reach $10 billion next year, becoming a fast-growing use case for Circle’s USDC. Huma is an income-backed DeFi lending protocol based in San Francisco that builds infrastructure components to enable income-backed decentralized financial services for people and businesses. The company is developing an on-chain factoring market and working with launch partners to enable borrowing against invoices and user incomes. Initial launch partners include Circle, Request Network and Superfluid, which are enabling borrowing against invoices and users’ incomes. Huma was founded by Erbil Karaman, Richard Liu, Ji Peng and Lei Du. The company plans to use the seed funds to continue developing the platform and to expand its reach into new markets. No operating metrics were disclosed in the article.

• WSPN

  Led · Seed · Aug 2024

  WSPN is a Singapore-based provider of stablecoin infrastructure whose flagship product is the WUSD stablecoin, pegged 1:1 to the U.S. dollar. The company says WUSD aims to optimize secure and licensed digital payments for Web3 users. WSPN is led by CEO and Founder Raymond Yuan and positions itself as building a more secure and efficient payment solution for the global economy. The company raised $30M in a Seed funding round to support expansion. The round was led by Folius Ventures and Foresight Venture, with participation from Hash Global, Generative Ventures, RedPoint Capital, and a consortium of investment companies, exchanges and foundations. WSPN intends to use the funds to expand operations and its development efforts.

• Chainbase

  Participated · Series A · Jul 2024

  Chainbase is a blockchain data network. The company provides infrastructure focused on blockchain data. It announced a $15M Series A round led by Tencent Investment Group and Matrix Partners China. Other investors included Folius Ventures, Hash Global, JSquare, Mask Network and Bodl Ventures. The company said the round was completed in the fourth quarter of last year and was structured using a mix of equity financing and token warrants. With this financing its total funding to date is $18M; the company declined to comment on valuation.

No current team members are available.