Led · Equity · Jul 2026

Cantina was founded by veteran security researchers and engineers to address accelerating, AI-enabled attacks by automating security work from discovery through resolution. The platform builds a dynamic "Security Memory Layer" that maps assets, identities, systems, and their relationships and layers in business context such as ownership and recent changes. Cantina provides risk prioritization to surface the highest business-impact issues, autonomous remediation that automates investigation and coordination, and verified resolution that confirms fixes and maintains auditable evidence. Customers span healthcare, financial technology, and other regulated industries, from mid-market companies to Fortune 500 enterprises. The company also holds trusted access with OpenAI and participates in Anthropic's Cyber Verification Program, giving it early visibility into evolving model capabilities. Cantina emphasizes continual learning: every investigation refines the platform's understanding so it becomes more precise over time.

Led · 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.

Led · Equity · Jun 2026

TVL Capital is developing blockchain infrastructure for Chain-Traded Products (CTPs), positioning them as the on-chain equivalent of exchange-traded products that enable institutional access to structured payoff structures and derivatives. The company is headquartered in Zug and was founded by Andrew Peel, Penny Tunbridge and Lars Hoffmann, each bringing senior experience from Morgan Stanley, UBS and crypto research respectively. TVL Capital says it is already collaborating with globally systemically important banks, traditional financial institutions, centralized trading venues and leading blockchain protocols. The firm highlights the global structured products market at roughly $2.6 trillion in outstanding volume and notes that annual issuance has nearly tripled since 2021. Following the $5 million funding round, TVL plans to use the capital to expand its technology platform and accelerate the rollout of CTPs. Governance has been bolstered with new board and advisory additions to support market and industry engagement.

Led · Series A · Jun 2026

Mecka AI collects large-scale human motion data—including hand gestures and walking gaits—using custom hardware such as body sensors and everyday devices like iPhones to train embodied AI models for robots. The company began after its founders spent months studying robotics research and partnering with robotics labs to validate training robots on human data rather than teleoperation data. Mecka’s team designs custom equipment (including devices produced in Shenzhen) to capture human physical motions at scale. The startup says it has signed contracts that project an annual run rate of $100 million and currently employs about 40 people. Founders Josh Gao, Mogen Cheng, Jason Chong, and Duy Nguyen come from prior startups in payments and crypto, and the company has attracted investor interest including Framework Ventures and several institutional and angel backers. Investors describe Mecka as demonstrating strong early revenue growth, though the company declined to name customers or disclose its valuation.

Led · Equity · May 2026

Checker provides a single-API network that gives regulated financial institutions access to stablecoin liquidity, fiat on- and off-ramps, payment rails, and tools for trading, payments, treasury, and credit. Over the past year its initial stablecoin liquidity product scaled from $0 to $3B in total processing volume across about 30 institutional customers, including Rail, Braza Bank, and Belo. The platform processes roughly 1% of annual global B2B stablecoin payments volume and supports 75 global currencies for FX, collections, payouts, named accounts, and trading. Checker emphasizes reducing fragmentation by orchestration of liquidity and compliance across markets so institutions do not need to integrate multiple providers. With the new funding the company plans to expand global payments coverage to reduce correspondent banking dependencies, add embedded borrowing and lending to lower pre-funding needs, and deploy AI-powered agents for treasury and back-office automation. The company is backed by leading investors and strategic financial partners including Galaxy Ventures, Al Mada Ventures, Framework, Bitso, and Airtm.