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.

Led · Seed · Jul 2026

Axis Robotics provides a compounding data engine aimed at accelerating robotic intelligence by producing scalable, structured training datasets. Its stack includes a web-based teleoperation platform, mobile capture applications, and automated processing pipelines to generate high-fidelity datasets for robotics hardware and AI model developers. The company plans to expand procedural generation features and scale a distributed global contributor network to address data scarcity and fragmentation in physical AI. Axis Robotics announced a $12 million seed round to fund those efforts. The company was founded by Chris and is based in the United States. The article does not disclose revenue, user metrics, or prior financing rounds.

Participated · Equity · Jul 2026

THEA is developing Thea Network, a programmable settlement system designed to coordinate requests, payments and verification for AI services across applications and agents. The network architecture combines partitioned off-chain computation for scalability with anchoring on Solana and zero-knowledge proofs to provide on-chain integrity and verifiable settlement. THEA intends to enable programmatic payment channels and tokenization to reduce operational complexity for machine-to-machine payments and distributed business models. The company plans to connect specialized AI models, people and agents through infrastructure for request settlement and service payment. Financially, THEA has just raised $8 million in strategic funding to advance its infrastructure; the company has stated it currently does not have a token and has not announced any ICO.

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.

Led · Series A · Feb 2026

Opinion operates a decentralized prediction-market exchange in which all trades and settlements occur entirely on-chain, positioning itself as a non-custodial alternative to centralized betting and derivatives venues. The product experience is closest to Polymarket, allowing users to speculate on macroeconomic and regional events. Since launching key market categories in October, the platform has expanded rapidly and now holds approximately $130 million in open interest across its markets. This growth underscores rising user engagement and liquidity within the protocol. Opinion’s business model centers on transaction fees generated from trading activity and liquidity provision. Proceeds from its recent capital raise will be used to deepen market liquidity, expand event categories, and enhance the underlying smart-contract infrastructure. The company’s near-term roadmap also includes scaling user acquisition and reinforcing its compliance and oracle systems.