Led · Equity · Apr 2024

U-topia is a Dubai, UAE-based Web3 entertainment company that builds a gamified multiverse where NFTs back interactive entertainment like video games, music, and movies through NFT provenance. The platform leverages top Web2 intellectual property, including content from sports matches and video-game-style IP comparable to Bandai Namco. It offers rewards and benefits from Top 100 retailers such as Nike and curates prime NFT collections from Web3 to enhance user value. Through its wallet, U-topia aims to integrate with Web3 dapps and games to drive mainstream adoption of digital assets. The company plans to use a recent $850K investment from GDA Capital to develop platform features and technologies and to enhance its capabilities. Led by CEO Emmanuel Quezada, U-topia intends to consolidate its position at the intersection of IP and the blockchain industry.

Participated · Seed · Apr 2024

Raiinmaker is described in the coverage as a Web3 artificial intelligence company. The company completed a $7.5 million seed financing, as reported by Foresight News citing The Block. The seed round was co-led by Jump Capital and Cypher Capital. Other investors named in the articles include Gate.io Labs, MEXC Global, Krypital Group, Alphabit, Launchpool, New Tribe Capital, Coach K, Axia 8 Ventures, Sheesha Finance, Andromeda Capital, Arcanum Capital, GDA Capital and Alpha Sigma Capital. The published coverage centers on the fundraising and investor participation. The articles do not provide further detail on product specifics, roadmap, operating metrics, founding year, location, or prior financings.

Led · Equity · Feb 2024

Coinweb is a layer-2 cross-chain computing platform that supports running decentralized applications across multiple different blockchains. The platform enables application developers to combine the capabilities of each blockchain when building dApps. Coinweb's offering is positioned to lower enterprise users' entry barriers to blockchain applications. According to the article, Coinweb recently received a $650,000 strategic investment from GDA Capital. The funding was reported on February 28, 2024 by DoNews citing IT桔子. The article does not disclose operating metrics, valuation, or further financial details. Coinweb is a layer-two cross-chain computation platform and blockchain-agnostic protocol that lets developers combine properties and functionalities of multiple blockchains to run decentralized applications. In 2022 it released a cross-chain tokenization platform (LinkMint), a native marketplace, DeconX, and a multi-tenancy wallet. Coinweb Labs provides design-and-build consultancy services to create custom turnkey Web3 solutions and incubate third-party projects on the protocol. The project has been in development since 2017 and is moving toward full production readiness and a planned mainnet launch. Coinweb recently partnered with Ceffu (the rebranded Binance custody solution) to manage a portion of its treasury in insured cold storage. The team says newly acquired tokens will be used for continued ecosystem build-out, while remaining founders have extended token lockup and vesting to signal long-term commitment. Coinweb is a layer-2 cross-chain computation platform that began its journey in mid-2017. The company says it has an experienced team and a board of advisors from traditional technology, business and blockchain. Coinweb aims to address critical problems in distributed ledger technology by enabling cross-chain computation. The announced partnership with Magnus Capital is intended to strengthen steady growth and expand Coinweb’s community. Magnus is expected to provide advice and access to its network, including developers, exchanges and community members. The article does not disclose any financial metrics or revenue information.

Led · Equity · Apr 2021

Autonio is an AI-powered decentralized automated trading system that allows traders to design investment strategies and compete with peers. Its platform brings AI-driven trading tools, including a market-making tool, to retail traders and aims to democratize high-frequency trading capabilities. The ecosystem uses the NIOX token to give users access to its AI network, liquidity mining, market making features, and a decentralized exchange. Autonio said it will use the GDA Capital investment to continue R&D, expand its team, and pursue development milestones toward wider adoption. The company highlighted a recent Fireblocks integration as infrastructure to attract institutional capital and strategic support. The article does not disclose revenue, user metrics, or prior financing rounds.

Participated · Equity · Apr 2021

Zignaly provides a social investment platform that lowers the barrier to entry for investors seeking exposure to digital assets by enabling vetted expert traders and fund managers to manage portfolios on behalf of members. The platform supports multi-chain, multi-exchange operations and a native ZIG token, with sales and IDOs across Ethereum ERC20, BSC, Polygon, Solana, Harmony, Avalanche and other blockchains. Zignaly serves the industry’s top traders and funds and offers profit-sharing arrangements so members can let experts handle trading while sharing in the profits. The company recently launched ZIGPAD, a launchpad-style incubator and investment network to facilitate fundraising and cross-chain IDOs for blockchain projects. To date, members have invested more than USD $120 million across the portfolios of more than 300 vetted traders and fund managers. Led by CEO Bartolome Bordallo and based in Singapore, Zignaly says it will use new capital to support global expansion. Zignaly operates a consumer-facing crypto social investment platform whose NFT-based, profit-sharing service allows professional digital-asset traders to manage other users’ investments through pooled accounts. Neither the company nor the traders charge upfront fees; profits are distributed automatically and are performance-based. The platform is integrated with major exchanges including Binance, with several other exchanges slated to go live soon. Zignaly has been generating revenue since 2018 and reports over 60,000 registered users who have traded more than $1.7 billion in volume. Led by CEO Bartolome Bordallo, the company intends to use the new funds for R&D, UX improvements and to continue growth of its insurance protocol.