The Venture Codex

Participated · Equity · Jun 2024

Cookie3 is a Web3 user analytics service provider that builds a data engine to interpret various on‑chain NFTs, smart contracts and tokens. The company's stated aim is to understand Web3 users' behavioral profiles across chains. Recently Cookie3 secured a $2.8M strategic investment. The round was led by Animoca Brands and included Mapleblock Capital, Castrum Capital, Founderheads, Unreal Capital, Oddiyana Ventures, ChainGPT Labs, SkyVision Capital (SVC), New Tribe Capital, Undefined Capital and Kangaroo Capital. No revenue or user metrics were reported in the article.

Led · Equity · Apr 2024

DOS Labs is a game development studio and publisher behind the battle royale title MetaDOS. The company develops blockchain infrastructure—DOS Chain, an Avalanche Subnet—to enable a zero-gas-fee experience with near-instant transaction finality. The alpha version of MetaDOS is live on Steam and the official game launch is scheduled in May. DOS Labs intends to use new funding to further enhance development and support the imminent launch. The studio positions MetaDOS to be accessible to both web2 and web3 players. The company is based in Tortola, British Virgin Islands.

Participated · Equity · Nov 2021

NuLink provides decentralized privacy protection technology via an API aimed at integrating privacy features into decentralized applications. Its platform is positioned to help developers, startups, small businesses and enterprises build applications while adopting security and privacy best practices. The company emphasizes privacy-preserving tooling for dApps rather than a consumer-facing product. NuLink is described as being based in Sweden. The article reports that NuLink completed a $1.6M strategic financing. The raise signals outside investor interest in its API-focused privacy offering. NuLink provides privacy-preserving technology for decentralized applications through an out-of-the-box API platform. The platform offers endpoint encryption and cryptographic access control, using Proxy Re-Encryption and Attribute-Based Encryption to grant access by policy. For data recipients, NuLink supports Zero-Knowledge Proofs for privacy-preserving data availability and can employ Fully Homomorphic Encryption for enterprise-level data computation. The company highlights use cases including encrypted NFT marketplaces, electronic health record sharing, joint medical data analysis, decentralized digital rights management, privacy-preserving social networks, and encrypted financial data prediction. Co-founder David Jiao said the roadmap is to create a smart and scalable software architecture and to evolve from privacy data sharing to privacy data computing while building industry-specific use cases. NuLink announced a $4 million raise from a syndicate of crypto investors, per the company press release.

Participated · Seed · Nov 2021

Seeded Network is a project incubator and DeFi platform built on Solana’s blockchain, designed to leverage borrowing, lending, and staking incentives to support investors and startups. The company raised $1.25M in funding to develop its project incubator and DeFi products. Seeded leverages Solana’s high throughput and low fees to enable staking, lending, and borrowing experiences, and recently announced partnerships with Chainlink and Waggle. Security firm CertiK is set to audit Seeded’s smart contracts ahead of launches of its staking, lending, and borrowing products. Its staking product lets users stake $SEEDED for seven days before an incubator project launch to gain an allocation, with tokens withdrawable at any time. Borrowing supports using existing assets and LP tokens as collateral and allows borrowed $SEEDED to be staked for ten days to receive allocations; lending includes “Locked Lending” of $SEEDED for 90 days that offers double allocation. Early withdrawal from borrowing and lending incurs a 30% penalty shared equally between stakers, the Seeded treasury, and Seeded’s community choice charity.