Participated · Seed · Apr 2026

Alien develops a decentralized identity L1 network intended to verify humans and link AI agents to their human owners, creating trust and accountability in the agentic economy. The company is releasing and open-sourcing Alien Agent IDs to give agents verifiable credentials tied to real human Alien IDs. Its first demonstrated use case is an Agent ID for Claude Code that attaches a verified badge to every commit to prove human authorization. Alien is led by CEO Kirill Avery and is headquartered in San Francisco. Financially, the company recently closed a $7.1M pre-seed round to fund operations expansion and further product development.

Led · Seed · Mar 2026

General Tensor is a Toronto-based company advancing decentralized AI infrastructure through a vertically integrated model that both mines and validates on the Bittensor network. The firm is building high-performance Bittensor subnet infrastructure while also operating a growing set of validators. In parallel, it acquires and develops early-stage fintech protocols to broaden its reach within the open-source AI economy. Current plans include scaling a suite of consumer-facing DeFi applications that leverage its network resources. The company’s recent funding will be directed toward expanding validator operations and accelerating technical development. Although specific revenue or user metrics were not disclosed, the firm positions itself at the intersection of AI, blockchain, and DeFi, aiming to capture value across these converging markets.

Participated · Seed · Jan 2025

1Money is building the world’s first Layer 1 payments network exclusively for stablecoins, designed to deliver sub-second confirmations, low fixed fees, and native compliance. The protocol uses a patent-pending Byzantine Consistent Broadcast (BCB) design intended to eliminate long delays, surge-pricing fees, security vulnerabilities, and compliance gaps on existing blockchains. Key features include instant transaction confirmation (under one second), fixed low-cost fees with plans for gasless transactions through partners, native multicurrency stablecoin support, and network fees charged in the transacted stablecoin. The network claims scalability above 250,000 transactions per second and includes embedded compliance mechanisms to automate sanctions controls. 1Money emerged from stealth with over $20 million in seed funding and plans to launch the 1Money Network in Q2, using the capital to power product development and the network rollout. The company emphasizes simplifying the Web3 experience by removing complex tokenomics, staking, and governance layers to accelerate mainstream and enterprise adoption of stablecoin payments.

Participated · Seed · Dec 2023

Nonco builds a 21st-century institutional brokerage combining technology and service with a non-custodial approach that leverages clearing, smart contracts, bilateral settlement and multiple counterparty risk-mitigating mechanisms. Its product suite includes spot, funding, derivatives and structured products, delivered to institutions, corporates and ECPs. Since launching in April, Nonco has executed close to $6 billion in trading volume and reported a 65% average month-over-month growth rate. The firm aims to become a top global digital-asset brokerage and is focused on serving rising institutional demand across the Americas. Nonco spun off from OSL Digital Limited (the Americas division of Hong Kong-based OSL) and OSL retains a minority stake. The leadership team includes former senior executives from OSL, Genesis Global, BTG, Merrill Lynch and RBS, emphasizing crypto and traditional finance experience.

Participated · Equity · Sep 2021

Avalanche is a layer-1 blockchain undertaking a major technology overhaul called Avalanche9000. The upgrade recently went live in a testnet environment and is designed to make transactions and running validators significantly cheaper. According to the announcement, Avalanche9000 cuts deployment costs by 99%, with the goal of making it easier to build apps on the network. Avalanche has an active native token, AVAX, which rose following the token sale announcement. The network is the 10th-largest blockchain by total value locked (TVL) at $1.6 billion, per DefiLlama. The project has attracted substantial institutional interest amid its upgrade and fundraising activity. Avalanche is a public smart-contract platform that claims to be the fastest in the space by time-to-finality, offering low-cost and eco-friendly transactions. Its core product includes support for DeFi, enterprise applications, and customizable Subnets that enable private or public networks with control over implementation. The Avalanche Foundation says it will deploy support through grants, token purchases, investments, and technical assistance. Since introducing its platform in September of last year, Avalanche reports rapid ecosystem growth with more than 270 initiatives being developed on the platform, including integrations with major DeFi projects such as Tether, SushiSwap, Chainlink, Circle, and The Graph. The network also reports more than a thousand validator nodes staking tokens. The Foundation and community emphasize use cases in asset tokenization and regulated institutional deployments built on Subnets.