Led · Seed · Jun 2026

Founded in 2025 by Aleph Lasebikan and Paul Joe, Daya is building a financial operating layer that helps African businesses manage cross-border payments more efficiently. The platform lets users collect funds in local currencies, convert them intelligently using stablecoin rails, and settle payments globally. Daya targets businesses, freelancers, and companies that frequently make international payments or pay suppliers across borders. The startup has raised $2.4M in a pre-seed round led by Hivemind Capital with participation from Lattice, Alliance, Globelink, and the Aptos Foundation. Daya plans to deploy the funding to build infrastructure aimed at reducing cost, complexity, and friction in moving money across African and global markets.

Participated · Equity · Jun 2026

Receipts Depositary Corporation is a Houston‑based depositary that issues depositary receipts (DRs) designed to let investors own digital and alternative assets through regulated, market‑eligible instruments. Its offerings provide issuer services, operational infrastructure, and market connectivity to connect asset issuers, intermediaries, and U.S. capital markets. The founders bring more than a decade of experience in the DR business, and the company states it is building a modern, technology‑driven depositary platform. RDC plans to expand its suite of DR products across additional asset categories and make certain offerings available to retail investors. The company is investing in capital markets infrastructure, go‑to‑market expansion, and strategic hiring to support upcoming product launches. RDC notes it is not a bank and is not registered as a broker, dealer, or investment adviser in any jurisdiction. The company recently raised $7 million to support these initiatives.

Participated · Seed · Mar 2026

Silhouette Exchange is building the first shield exchange on Hyperliquid, a privacy-preserving layer that batches and matches orders off-chain within Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) and settles them on-chain. By combining off-chain private order matching with on-chain settlement, the platform aims to enable more secure and efficient trading environments for digital assets. The company positions its architecture as hybrid infrastructure that preserves privacy while maintaining on-chain finality. Silhouette raised an $8 million Seed round to accelerate development and expand its privacy-preserving infrastructure. The financing structure included a CLA and a Token Warrant, reflecting a blend of equity-like and token-based capital. The article does not provide revenue, user, or other operating metrics.

Participated · Equity · Feb 2026

Huddle01 is building a decentralized real-time communications network (dRTC) on Arbitrum Orbit with Caldera integration, targeted at gaming, social apps, AI, metaverses, and general video conferencing. Its product suite includes Huddle01 Meet for video calls, Huddle Cloud for low-cost real-time infrastructure, Farhouse for spaces and streams, and HuddlePad, a token-launch platform that uses Uniswap’s Continuous Clearing Auction (CCA) mechanism. The testnet has processed more than 3.3 million transactions, logged over 1.2 billion meeting minutes, attracted 170,000–204,000 active users, and driven 100,000+ mobile app downloads. In production, the network has delivered 840+ million minutes of service and supports thousands of community-run nodes. Huddle01 plans to launch its mainnet and conduct a Token Generation Event (TGE) for its native $HUDL token in Q1 2026, allocating 21% of the TGE supply to node operators. A current public sale is offering 10% of the 200 million-token supply via CCA at a floor price of 0.1 USDC, with a five-day auction window. The company recently strengthened its balance sheet with a $6.6 million capital infusion from prominent crypto investors and angels.

Led · Seed · Nov 2025

Zynk is developing a blockchain-based payment infrastructure that enables instant international settlements without requiring pre-funded liquidity, targeting use cases such as fintech apps, remittance providers, trading platforms, neobanks, payroll systems, and other B2B payment processors. Its platform currently supports transactions across USD, EUR, AED, INR, MXN, and PHP corridors, and it earns revenue by charging fees tied to transaction volume and liquidity usage. Founded in April 2025 by Prashanth Swaminathan, Manish Bhatia, and Abhishek Pitti, the company operates out of Hyderabad. Since a quiet launch earlier this year, Zynk reports 70% month-on-month growth. With the fresh capital, the team plans to widen corridor coverage, bolster compliance and security, and secure partnerships with global banks and payment institutions. These initiatives aim to solidify Zynk’s position as the backbone for real-time, cross-border money movement. The company has not publicly disclosed revenue figures but positions its rapid growth trajectory and expanding corridor network as key indicators of traction.