Further Ventures
Hamouda Bin Ali St, Unit 2 Level 7, Al Khatem Tower, Abu Dhabi, Al Maryah Island, United Arab Emirates
Overview
Further Ventures builds and invests in companies powering financial markets of the future. Further's unique global platform bridges next-generation financial infrastructure in emerging economies with capital markets globally. Our companies enable institutional partners to securely transfer and store their assets, trade structured products, secure decentralized networks, tokenize funds, settle derivative transactions in a trustless manner, and much more. Founders from San Francisco to Hong Kong choose Further as their institutional co-founder of choice. We make concentrated capital commitments, work proactively with regulators, and bring our collective expertise to build category-leading companies.
- Total investments
- 13
- Lead investments
- 7
- Investments · 12mo
- 8
- Active investors
- 6
Sector focus
- Cryptocurrency
- FinTech
- Software
- Venture Capital
Investment portfolio
- Yuno
Participated · Series B · Aug 2026
Yuno provides an AI-native payments and financial services operating system that connects customers through a single API to payins, payouts, fraud prevention, KYC/KYB, and stablecoins at global scale. The platform is agnostic by design and connects to over 1,000 payment methods and 460+ integrations across 190+ countries, with intelligent routing, one-click checkout, and AI-powered fraud detection. Over the past year the company recovered more than $5 billion in otherwise-failed transaction volume, increased authorization rates by about 5%, saved customers over $500 million in processing costs, and added 150 new integrations. Global brands using Yuno include McDonald's, NetEase Games, GoFundMe, inDrive, and Rappi, and Yuno partners with providers such as dLocal and Prosa to white-label its technology. Founded in Colombia in 2022, the company is expanding its product footprint into in-person payments and agentic commerce while scaling its presence in the United States and deepening regional coverage in the Middle East.
- Silicon Data
Participated · Series A · Aug 2026
Silicon Data provides pricing indices, performance benchmarks, forward curves and market intelligence for the AI compute economy, aimed at buyers, sellers, exchanges and financial institutions. It has built a portfolio of nine financial-grade indices covering GPUs and LLMs and offers alternative datasets that track supply, demand, utilization, pricing and economics across compute. The company has over 1,000 registered users and counts semiconductor manufacturers, AI model builders and financial institutions among its daily users. SiliconMark, a product funded by the Series A, benchmarks real-world GPU cluster performance to normalize output differences driven by networking, topology and configuration. Silicon Data spent two years building the pricing and performance history needed to support a futures market and is positioned to be the reference layer for cash-settled GPU futures being planned by CME Group. Financially, the company raised a $4.7 million seed in March 2025 and completed a $30.5 million Series A initial closing to fund its next phase of product and market expansion.
- Bundle
Led · Seed · Jul 2026
Bundle is developing a blockchain-powered rewards platform that enables brands to combine their incentive budgets into shared reward pools so businesses can offer larger rewards while lowering customer acquisition costs. The startup launched from stealth with founders Bader Al Kalooti and Mostafa Wanas. It announced a $5.5 million pre-Seed round to fund product development and go-to-market activities. The financing round was led by Ethereal Ventures and Further, with participation from Nascent, GSR, Scenius Capital, Anchorage Digital, and Nuwa Capital. Bundle is positioned in the Web3 and rewards space and is headquartered in the UAE. The company aims to attract brands to its pooled-incentive model to create more compelling customer rewards.
- CredibleX
Participated · Series A · May 2026
CredibleX builds embedded financing infrastructure that integrates capital access into the ecosystems where SMEs transact. The company partners with over 70 ecosystem partners to distribute financing and embed credit into workflows. CredibleX aims to expand access to flexible working capital, scale its technology and financing infrastructure, and strengthen partnerships across the UAE. Financially, the company recently closed a $15M Series A and previously secured a $100M debt facility from Pollen Street Capital. The combined equity and debt resources are intended to accelerate growth and support SMEs in accessing more seamless, embedded finance solutions.
- Four Pillars
Participated · Series A · Apr 2026
Founded in 2023 and headquartered in Seoul, Four Pillars began as a research-focused blockchain company and is rebranding as a "Web3 Solutions Company" to expand into full-stack infrastructure and institutional services. The firm organizes its work across three integrated pillars—Research, Institution, and Validated—continuing to publish multi-lingual technical analysis while offering advisory services and seminars for enterprises and institutional investors. Its research team comprises 10+ researchers and the company has produced over 600 research reports and completed more than 100 collaborations. The Validated infrastructure arm is staffed by five veteran engineers with node operation experience and operates within SOC 2 and ISO-certified environments. Four Pillars plans to deepen its institutional-grade validator services and to act as a bridge between Asia and global markets and between traditional finance and Web3, with particular attention to developments like KRW-based stablecoins and asset tokenization. The company positions research as a capability proof-point and intends to scale execution, product delivery, and institutional integrations following the Series A investment.