Participated · Equity · Jul 2024

FreeBnk operates as a Lithuania-based neobank targeting crypto investors with a unified app that offers tokenized real-world asset investments (fractional property, stocks, bonds, gold), gas fee-less cross-chain crypto trading, cheaper overseas fiat transfers, merchant payments, lending, and secure custody. The company emphasizes accessibility, security, and customization, and plans ongoing research and development to build and improve its app for users new to digital asset investment. Its custody solution uses MPC technology and is backed by $30M in insurance coverage. Product lines include FreeBnk RealWorld for RWAs, FreeBnk Crypto for trading and on/off-ramps, FreeBnk Transfer for low-cost fiat transfers, FreeBnk Pay for low-fee merchant payments, FreeBnk Lending for mortgages and savings, and FreeBnk Safe for inheritance and portfolio insurance. Leadership is led by CEO Yunus Emre Ozkaya and CDO Arash Lowni. The company recently completed a financing round that affects its current financial position.

Participated · Equity · Apr 2024

YieldNest is a Singapore-based company building a liquid restaking protocol centered on EigenLayer’s $11 billion shared security and decentralized trust markets. Led by CEO Amadeo Brands, the firm is developing a suite of products for the liquid staking landscape. Its first upcoming product, ynETH, is a liquid restaking token designed to boost and auto-compound ETH yields via a curated AVS basket composed of isolated AVS categories. YieldNest raised $5.2M in funding and says the round was oversubscribed. The company intends to use the funds to expand operations and development efforts. Brands stated that contributors, angels, and advisors share the company’s vision for the future of restaking and LRTs.

Participated · Equity · Apr 2024

BonusBlock operates an on-chain marketplace and offers white-label solutions to help Web3 projects onboard and verify high-quality users using AI analysis. It addresses Web3 acquisition challenges where quest platforms are dominated by bots by providing transparent, provable quality scoring based on smart-contract and transaction-level interactions. The company says its AI scales trust and delivers clear quality-level scoring to distinguish genuine users from gamified or mercenary bot activity. BonusBlock reports more than 4M+ users interacted across all protocols and contribution to more than 10M+ on-chain transactions, and it has worked with 30+ projects including Injective and Xion by Burnt. Notable IDO traction includes Bybit (over 104k), ApeTerminal (Total Assets Connected $322M) and EclipseFi (first IDO filled in under 23 seconds). The on-chain marketplace is scheduled to go live in early April and the company has onboarded high-value KOLs.

Participated · Equity · Feb 2022

Voltage Finance (formerly FuseFi) is an all‑in‑one decentralized finance platform built on the EVM‑compatible Fuse Network and focused on mainstream DeFi adoption. Its consumer products include integration with the Fuse Cash mobile wallet for zero‑fee exchanges and a platform‑native stablecoin, FuseDollar (fUSD). The project emphasizes usability features such as direct mobile bank‑to‑crypto onboarding across 170+ countries and interest earnings on fUSD of up to 50% annually. Voltage has launched the Voltage DAO and is preparing a public Volt (VOLT) governance token sale with launchpads and a dedicated round for Fuse token holders. The token generation event (TGE) was expected around March 3, 2022, coinciding with DEX listings, initial farming pools, staking and an airdrop for early users. The company reported a private fundraising round closing that brought total private raises to $3.4M.

Participated · Seed · Jan 2022

NFT3 develops a unified decentralized identity (DID) and credit network for Web3 that uses NFTs as a portable identity layer and an NCredit identity graph for Web3 credit scoring. The platform’s first major use case is validated airdropping, enabling projects to airdrop only to real users by requiring an activated NFT3 DID. NFT3 positions its DID solution as a fix for bot-generated wallet address spoofing and to expose useful on-chain metadata for projects and platforms. The company aims to enable personal monetization paths tied to users’ data journeys across projects, social networks, companies and metaverses. CEO Dylan Dewdney, founder of Kylin Network, leads the effort and frames NFT3 as a gateway to mass adoption of Web3 products. The company recently closed a seed financing to support product rollout and expansion.